Obituary Notice of the Rev. James Farquharson, D.D., 

 Selkirk. By T. Craig-Brown, Selkirk. 



We have to record the death of a respected, and at one 

 time an active, member of the Club — the Rev. James 

 Farquharson, D.D., minister of Selkirk, which took place 

 at Corstorphine on 25th April 1906. Dr Farquharson, who 

 was born on 13th December 1832, was a son of the Rev. 

 James Farquharson, LL.D., F.R.S., for thirty-one years 

 minister of Alford in Aberdeenshire. Educated partly~^a^ 

 the parish school of Clatt and partly at the Grammar~"SchooLJ 

 of Aberdeen, he entered Marischal College in 18t6, and 

 graduated in 1850. In that year he was enrolled as a 

 student of Divinity, finishing his four sessions in 1854, when 

 he was licensed to preach. He was a distinguished student, 

 the professor of Hebrew ranking him among the best that 

 ever attended his classes. After being licensed he became 

 assistant to Dr Forsyth, minister of the West Parish of 

 Aberdeen, where, in missionary work amongst the poor and 

 in the duties of chaplain to the Blind Asylum, as well as 

 to a Hospital for Children, he acquired valuable experience. 

 After a few weeks in Edinburgh, as assistant to the minister 

 of St. Luke's, he was, in 1857, presented by the Duke of 

 Roxburgh to the parish of Selkirk, in succession to the Rev. 

 John Campbell. As Mr Campbell was presented in 1805, 

 the incumbency of the two ministers has stretched over the 

 long period of 100 years ; and a curious coincidence is that 

 they both died on tlie 25th April. 



