Obituary Notices. 
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Presbytery of Duns; resigned on account of health in 1884, having been 
unable to attend the Assembly during session of 1883. 
Border Counties Association. — Was one of the original members ; elected a 
Vice-President when Association formed in 1865 ; elected President in 
1872 on retirement of Lord Jerviswoode ; resigned this office on account 
of health in 1884, and was then appointed one of the Patrons. 
Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club. — Became a member in 1861 ; elected President 
for the year in 1876. 
Ellem Fishing Club. — Admitted member in 1838 ; Preses in the years 1858, 
1859, and 1860. 
Member of the Board of Manufactures, Scotland, for nearly twenty years, 
resigning January 1888. 
Director, Bank of Scotland, 1864-1888. 
Connection with University Court, Edinburgh (see Minute, November 21, 1887). 
Professor of Civil Law, 1842-1862 ; and since then as Assessor to two 
successive Rectors for six years, as Chancellors Assessor for five years, and 
as a Member of the Court of Curators for six years. 
“ Long and intimate relation ” with the Highland and Agricultural Society of 
Scotland, Convener of Committee of District Shows, Director, Member of 
Council on Agricultural Education, and also of Veterinary and other 
Committees. 
It would seem from his journals of his travels abroad that for 
some of his earlier years he was not in strong health ; but still he 
must have had a vigorous constitution, for he died in his 78th 
year. Down to 1883, when he had passed the age of 70, apparently 
his activity and strength had known no diminution. In that year 
he had a sudden seizure, which next morning medical men pro- 
nounced to be of a paralytic nature. It was not severe. I saw him 
the year after, and found him in very good spirits, and regaining 
his power of locomotion. He continued to improve till 1886, when 
unfortunately he met with a severe carriage accident, in which his 
coachman was killed, and he himself so injured that he never 
recovered his power of locomotion. He remained, however, fully 
alive to all that was going on round him, taking great interest both 
in the past and in the present. The end came unexpectedly, and he 
died on the 27th of November of last year. 
So ends my tale. It has been a mournful, but to me a very 
pleasant task, to recall the life of one with whom I was so intimate, 
and with whom, although we differed on almost all public questions, 
I retained the most friendly, amicable, and confidential relations to 
the end. He was a friend worth cultivating, for he took an interest 
in everything that was intelligent and refined ; a master himself of 
