212 OBITUARY NOTICE OF REV. THOMAS LEISHMAN 



were very few. Besides his Presidential Address, in which 

 he did not take up a special subject to discuss, there are 

 only two papers from his hand. One (1867) dealt with 

 ancient Scottish customs and superstitions, based on the 

 Records of the Presbytery of Kelso between the years 

 1609 and 1687, full of curious matter illustrative of the 

 habits of thought of the Border men of the 17th century. 

 His other paper (1895) was simply the reproduction in print 

 of a valuable unpublished manuscript in his possession on 

 "The State of the Kirks within the Presbytery of Kelso, 

 July, 1649." It should be mentioned also that when the 

 Club visited Linton, in 1901, a short paper by Dr Leishman 

 was read on the history and antiquities of the Parish, a 

 subject on which he knew everything that can now be 

 definitely ascertained. 



All who had the privilege of knowing Dr Leishman will 

 agree that he was a finished specimen of a Christian gentle- 

 man. No one on the Border was more deservedly respected 

 than he. His learning and culture, his affability and 

 courtesy, his high sense of honour, and his natural modesty, 

 combined to form in him a character of rare excellence. As 

 a churchman he was wise and sagacious, as a pastor he was 

 conscientious and faithful, as a friend he was constant and 

 true, as a man he was upright and devout. He died in the 

 fulness of years, having served his generation well, and by 

 his departure the Church of which he was a minister, the 

 district in which he lived, and the Club of which he was so 

 long a member, have alike suffered loss. 



