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Terror bomb ; and in June following assumed the temporary command of the W Trusty, 50. In this vessel he was sent to convey five East Indiamen to a latitude in WAID, Andrew, Lieutenant in the which they might be safely left ; which Eoyal Navy, a native of Anstruther, died having done, he heard on his return of a near London in the year 1804. Having no large fleet of merchantmen which had been issue, he exetuted a trust disposition and for some time lying at Cadiz in want of settlement on the 4th December 1800. by convoy, and under heavy demurrage. Con- which he disponed and conveyed his whole ceiving he could not be more beneficially property, heritable and moveable, real and employed than in protecting the commerce personal, after paying annuitie.s of £203 15s of his country, Captain Walker thought fit to various persons whom he named, and {in contravention of his orders, which were others whom he substituted in their room to return to Spitliead), to take charge of after his death, to twelve trustees for the these vessels, which he conducted in perfect (lurpose of erecting; an academy at An- safety to England. Two memorials of the struther, his birth-place, for the reception, Spanish merchants residing in London accommodation, clothing, and education, as represented to the Admiralty "that the well as maintenance of as many orphan value of the fleet amounted to upwards of a boys and seamen's boys, in indigent million sterling, which but for his active circumstances, giving the preference to exertions would have been left in great orphans, as the whole of his estate would danger, at a most critical time, when the admit of, and appointed the erection of the Spaniards were negotiating a peace with said academy to be set about as soon as France." The Spanish authorities, how- £100 sterling of the foresaid annuities should ever, having resented his having assisted the cease. The testator died in June 1804. merchants in removing theb property, it The amount of trust funds at Whitsunday was deemed right to bring Captain Walker last (1866) was about £7000, and the annui- to a court-martial on his return to Ply- ties still remaining a burden on the funds mouth ; and it being found that he had amount to £90 yearly. acted without orders, he was broke. At the WALKER, James, Rear-Admiral of the same time it was no small consolation to his Red, C.B., and K.T.S.—This brave and feelings to know that the Lords Commis- distinguished officer was the son of James sioners of the Admiralty appreciated the Walker of Inverdivat, in Fife, and of Lady motives by which he had been actuated, and Mary, third and youngest daughter of interested themselves in his favour. About Alexander, and Melville. eight months after, the Spanish Ambas- He entered the navy about 1776 as midship- sador received orders from his government man in the Southampton, frigate, in which to request that the whole transaction might be served for five years, principally on the be forgotten, and Mr Walker was restored Jamaica station, and in the grand fleet to his rank of commander in March 1797. under Sir Charles Hardy. In August 1780 In the summer of 1797, while the he had a narrow escape, being sent to assist raged at the Nore, Captain Walker suggested in removing the prisoners from a captured a plan for attacking the Sandwich with the Erivateer which sunk, and it was some time smasher guns invented by his relative efore he was rescued from the waves. In General Melville, and volunteered to 1781 he was promoted to the rank of lieu- conduct the enteipi-ise. It so happened tenant, and appointed to the Princess Royal, that a plan exactly similar had been but almost immediately exchanged into the adopted by the Board of Admiralty Torbay, 74, in which he served under Sir not an hour before, and Captain Walker Samuel Hood in the operations at St was immediately appointed to the com- Christopher's, and the memorable engage- mand of a division of gun boats, fitted ment with the Count De Gra.sse. After the at Woolwich ; but before he arrived at peace of 1783, Lieutenant Walker spent Gravestnd the mutineers had been in- some years in France, Italy, and Germany ; duced to surrender. He was then ordered and in 1788, when a war broke out between to act as Captain of the Garland frigate, and Russia and Turkey, was offered the com- to conduct the trade bound to the Baltic as mand of a Russian ship, but could not far as Elsinoir. On his return from that obtain leave to accept it. He was subse- service, he removed into the Monmouth, quently appointed in succession to the 64, employed in the North Sea. In Lord Champion, Winchelsea, Boyne, and Niger. Duncan's memorable battle of the 11th The last was one of the repeating frigates to October 1797, the Monmouth was closely Earl Howe's fleet in the battle of June 1, engaged for an hour and a-half with the

1794 ; and Mr Walker was advanced to the Delft and Alkmaar, ships of the line, and rank of commander for his conduct as compelled them both to surrender. The lieutenant and signal officer on that glorious latter was taken in tow immediately after day. Immediately after this promotion he the action, and, notwithstanding the heavy weut as a volunteer with his late Captain, gale that ensued. Captain Walker did not the Hon. A. K. Legge, and his old mess- quit her until he had the satisfaction of mates of the Niger, in the Latona. At the anchoring her safely in Yarmouth Roads. beginning of 1795 he was appointed to the He was immediately confirmed in the rank 475 WAL FIFESHIEE BIOGEAPHY. WAL of Post-Captain, and the command of the could not approach within one hundred Monmouth, and received the naval gold miles of the scene of action. In 1814 Cap- medal and the thanks of Parliament. tain Walker was selected to accompany the On the 19th December following he assisted Duke of Clarence to Boulogne, for the pur- in depositing in St Paul's the colours cap- pose of bringing to England the Emperor tured in the recent naval victories. Captain of Russia and King of Prussia, Aftar the Walker subsequently commanded in succes- peace, he commanded the Albion, Queen, sion the Veteran, 64, Braakel, 56, Prince and Northumberland, third-rates, the last of George, 98, Prince of the same force, and which he paid off, 10th September 1818, and Isii, 50. The last was one of Lord Nelson's thus closed a continued service of twenty- division in the battle of Copenhagen, 2d one years as Post-Captain. He was nomi- April 1801, and was most warmly engaged nated a Companion of the Bath on the ex- for four hours and a-half with two of the tension of that honourable order in 1815, enemy's heaviest block ships and a battery and advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral of fourteen guns. Its loss in this sanguinary at the coronation of King George the IV., battle amounted to 9 officers and 103 men the promotion on that memorable occasion kiUed and wounded. In the ensuing sum- ending with him. The Rear-Admiral's mer Captain Walker obtained the command death occurred on the 13th July 1831, while of the Tartar frigate, and was ordered to on a visit to his son, commanding the convoy a fleet of merchantmen to the Coast-Guard of Blutchington, near Seaford. Jamaica Station, where he received a com- Rear-Admiral Walker was twice married. mission from the Admiralty, appointing His first wife was a daughter of the Right

him to the 'V^anguard, 74. On the renewal Hon. Gieneral Sir John Irvine, K.B. ; his of hostilities in 1803, he was employed in second and widow was a daughter of Arnol- the blockade of St Domingo, and while on dus Jones Skelton, Esq., of Branthwaite that service captured the Creole, 44, having Hall, in Cumberland, first cousin to the on board the JTrenoh General Morgan and Marquis Comwallis, and M.P. for Eye. 530 troops, and the Duquesne, 74—the His eldest son, Melville, is an officer of

latter after a chase of twenty-four hours dragoons ; his second, Frederick, a Lieuten-

and a running fight of an hour and a-half. ant R.N. ; and his thurd, Thomas, died in Shortly after his return the town of St Marc that rank in 1829. surrendered, after a blockade of fourteen WALKER, The Eight Rev. James,

weeks ; as also did the garrison of Cape D.D., Bishop of .—Dr Walker, Francals when the dominion of the French Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, was at an end. Captain Walker returned was bom at Kirkcaldy in the year 1772, and to England, with only 160 men, although after passing through the regular course of nearly that number of French prisoners was a college education in his native country, he embarked on board his ship, —a circumstance entered St John's College, Cambridge, where which rendered the utmost vigilance neces- he graduated B.A. in 1793 and M.A. in sary. He was subsequently appointed to 1796. On his return to he was the Thaha frigate, and sent to the East ordained to the ministry in 1793 ; and, en-

Indies ; and afterwards to the Bedford, 74, gaging at first in literary pursuits, he for one of the squadron sent by Sir W. Sidney some time acted as sub-editor of the En- Smith to escort the Royal Family of Portugal cyclopcsdia Britannica, the third edition of from Lisbon to Rio Janeiro. On his arrival which was then passing through the press there, the Prince Regent, in consideration under the auspices of Bishop Gleig. While of Captain Walker's unremitted attention in this employment he contributed many to the Portuguese fleet during a long and valuable articles to that national work, and tempestuous voyage, signified his intention also exercised, in the frequent absence of of conferring upon him the order of St his friend the Bishop, a general superintend-

Bento D'Avis ; but some objections having ence over the whole publication. At that been stated by his spiritual advisers on period, too, he gave to the world several account of Captain Walker's rehgion, his tracts and discourses published anonymously. Eoyal Highness determined to revive the Towards the close of the last century he was military order of the Tower and Sword, of induced to accompany a young baronet which he created him a Knight Commander abroad as his tutor, on which occasion he ^auhonoupsubseguently conferred on many spent two or three years on the continent. British officers. 'The Bedford was after- While at Rome he signalised himself as the wards employed In the blockade of Flushing first Protestant clergyman who established a and other services until September 1814, regular church service there, and adminis- when Captain Walker received orders to tered the Holy Communion according to the assume the command of a squadron, on board Church of England Book of Common Prayer of which was embarked the advanced guard to the English residents. In Germany he of the army sent against New Orleans. enjoyed the society of some of the most dis- During the course of their unsuccessful tinguished men in that country, and made attack, in which Admiral Sir, Alexander himself acquainted with the principles of Cochrane and Rear-Admirals Malcolm and their philosophy, more especially of those Codrington assisted. Captain Walker was transcendental speculations which, at that left in charge of the line of battle ships, epoch, occupied the minds of metaphysical which, on account of the shallow water, enquirers. The article on the system of 476 a

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Kant, inserted in the supplement to the fortunate as to form an acquaintance with Bncydopcedia, was the fruit of his researches a man who assisted Dr Robiaon in his class- whUe resident at Weimar. He afterwards 1 experiments, and who offered to in- settled in Edinburgh as minister of St Peter's troduce him to the Professor. This offer Chapel, Roxburgh Place, a charge which he Wallace,whohadnowfinishedhi8a]iprentice- held for a number of years, till increasing ship, gladly accepted. The Doctor was not infirmities obliged him to resign its more long in perceiving the earnest scientific zeal active duties. On the death of Bishop jf the young man, and the protfciency he Sandford, in January 1830, Mr Walker was lad made in mathematics, and, therefore, unanimously elected his successor ; and, on a'ave him permission to attend his course of the resignation of Bishop Gleig, about 1837, lectures on natural philosophy gratuitously. he was chosen by his brethren to be their To avail himself of such a welcome oppor- head or president under the ancient title of tunity, Wallace worked hard at his trade Primus. He also filled the office of Pan- during a portion of the time that should tonian or Divinity Professor to the Episcopal have been devoted to rest. Nor here did Communion in Scotland. Amidst all his Dr Robison's kind patronage terminate, for avocations his favourite pursuit was theology, he introduced his protege to Professor Play- in which he had read much, and systema- fair, who lent him scientific books, and gave tized his knowledge with great success. He him valuable suggestions for the study of was not only highly respected for his acquire- the higher branches of mathematics. Dr ments as a theologian, but much esteemed Robison also intrusted him with the tuition for his amiable and Christian qualities as an of one of his own pupils in geometry— individual. He was a particular friend of useful training to William Wallace, for the Bishop Low, and often visited him at his important charges as a public instructor,

residence in the Priory of Pittenweem ; and which he afterwards occupied. Finding in the summer of 1805 he accompanied him that the trade to which he had served a in his first tower in the Highlands. Captain regidar apprenticeship afforded too little Walker, a brother of Dr Walker, Uved in time for study, and that he might advance the Priory for several years as Bishop Low's himself to something better, Wallace be- friend and companion, and died there in came a warehouseman in a printing office, January 1854. For some years before his where his opportunities of acquiring know- death Bishop Walker had been afflicted with ledge were more abundant. Here he a rheumatic affection, first caught in cross- mastered the difficulties of the Latin langu-

ing the Alps many years previous ; and age by his own industry, aided by a few les- latterly, although not confined to bed, he sons from a college student, and afterwards was unable to move without assistance. He studied French. He then exchanged the died on the 5th March 1841. Besides the printing office for the situation of shopman tractsanddiscoursesmentioned.hepubUshed to one of the principal booksellers of Edin- some single sermons and pastoral charges, burgh, and, approaching still nearer to the and editedBishopJoUy's" Sunday Services," ultimate mark, he devoted his evenings to to which he prefixed an interesting memoir. the teaching of mathematics as a private WALLACE, William, LL.D., a tal- tutor. As this last occupation was more ented mathematician, was born at Dysart congenial than the other, he devoted him- in September 1768, and was the son of a self to it entirely, having abandoned the

tanner. After having been taught to read shop for that purpose ; and a short time at a private school, kept by an old woman, afterwards he was appointed assistant he was sent to a pubUc seminary, where he teacher of mathematics in the Academy of

learned to write ; but the still more impor- Perth. This was in 1794, when he had at- tant branch of education in his case—that tained his twenty-sixth year, and acquired of arithmetic—he learned at home from the such a reputation that the most scientific instructions of his father. His father having men in Edinburgh welcomed him as a been unsuccessful in business, removed to brother. Soon after he had settled in Perth Edinburgh, where William was bound ap- he married, and for nine years after there prentice to a bookbinder ; still, however, was a lull in his hitherto changeable course, dwelling under the paternal roof, and avail- during which he quietly discharged the ing himself of his father's course of instruc- duties of his somewhat obscure and humble tion. Besides this he was wont, when op- calling. But the time thus spent was not portunity offered, to read such books a£ spent in idleness, as he evinced when the were placed under his charge for binding. fitting season arrived. Among the fruits His mind having been thus awoke to action, of his studies at Perth were three articles, his favourite bias quickly took_ the lead. which successively appeared in the respec- He purchased a few mathematical books, tive jiublications for which they were in- and poured over them till they could teach tended. The first, which was presented to him nothing further. In this way, we are the Royal Society of Edinburgh inl796, was told, before he had reached his twentieth entitled " Geometrical Porisms," with Ex- year he was a considerable proficient ir amples of their Applications to the Solution elementary geometry and trigonometry. of Problems. About the same period he Algebra, with fluxions, conic sections, am contributed the article " Porism " to the astronomy. During this successful pursuii third edition of the EncpclopcediaBritannica. of scientific knowledge, he was likewise si His third article, which he presented to the ' 477 WAL FIFESHIRE BIOGKAPHY. WAR teaching imparted to their studies. Eoyal Society of Edinburgh, contained a which his continued to labour till 1838, when method of expressing the co-efficients He thus new retire from office m formula that re- was obliged to in the development of the his consequence of ill health; and on presents the mutual perturbation of two retirement Government expressed its planets, to which was added an appendix, value of his services, both converging series tor the sense of the giving a quickly and Edinburgh, by con- an elhpse. The scientific at Sandhurst rectification of pen men who were qualified to judge of these ferring University of Edinburgh by making him a papers bore high testimony to their accuracy of Laws. Five years of private life originality. The time at length arrived Doctor and during which, however, his mind when Mr Wallace was to be elevated to a succeeded, in his favourite pursuits, as was sphere of action. From the was not idle more fitting productions during this reputation had so attested by his obscnrity of Perth, his sickness for period, while he was unfitted by widely diffused itself that in 1803 he was in- intercourse of society. Having stand as candidate for the oflice of the usual vited to seventy-five, he died at master in the Royal Mihtary reached the age of mathematical April 1843. established at Edinburgh on the 28th of College, some time before The Family of.—This Great Marlow, in Buckinghamshire. He WARDLAW, Ano-lo-Saxon family was amongst those that consented, moved to this by the advice of Scotland at the period of the Con- venerated friend. Professor Playfair, and fled into his and being hospitably received by- was immediately elected to the office. It is quest, Kins Malcolm Canmore, settled m that interesting to notice that, in the following kin<'dom. Of the Wardlaws, Cardinal his countryman, Mr Ivory, who, Uke year, compiled a genealogical account the subject of struggle Wardlaw himself, had been coming from Saxonjr to and change, and who had also fought his from theur first England about the beginmng of the sixth way to scientific reputation, was elected his own time, a copy of which Professorship of Mathematics in the century up to the Ubrary of France untd the On the removal of the in- was in the royal same college. according to family tradi- in Berkshire, Mr Revolution ; and stitution to Sandhurst, house, the tion the elder branch of the Wallace accompanied it, and continued to of Torrie, had also a copy, which in a manner that secured the approba- Wardlaws teach his own time, the close In 1818 his sphere of was carried down to tion of the directors. by Sir Henry extended, in conse- of the fifteenth century, educational duty was Wardlaw, knight of the directors of the Wardlaw. Sir Henry quence of a resolution of niece ot Torrie, county of Fife, married a college that a half-yearly course of lectures on the Great Steward of Scotland, practical ajitronomy should be given to the Walter, had issue. Sir Henry was succeeded students, and that Mr Wallace should be and his eldest son, Sir Henry. this course also was to be at his decease by the lecturer. As 169fa Ehzabeth the manner This iientleman married in combined with instructions on Halkett, small second daughter of Sir Charles of making celestial observations, a Pitferrane, by whom he had, with observatory was erected for the purpose, Bart, of his successor. Sir Henry, at and furnished with the necessary instru- four daughters, decease, without issue, the title re_- ments. This addition to the routine whose Sir George, who married education has done much to verted to his uncle. of a military and was succeeded by his objections often brought against Miss Oliphant, remove the Henry, a mihtary ofiicer, at of the army, on account only son. Sir our bravest officers unmarried, the baronetcy deficiency in the science of their whose decease, cf their Su: David, ihia Another movement was now to devolved upon his uncle, profession. married Jean, only child and changeful career of Mr Wallace. gentleman occur in the Craighouse, and was died Mr (after- heu?ess of RoUand, of In 1819 JProfessor Playfair ; Henry, who was appointed to succeeded by his only son, Su- wards Sir John) Leslie by whom he had transference the married Miss Janet Taylor, hiin ; and by this succeed daughters and dying in Mathematics in the University of two sons and five ; Chair of by his elder son, Su: became vacant, and open to 1782 was succeeded Edinburgh gentleman married Margaret, The height of Wallace's David. This competition. Andrew Symson, Esq. of to obtain a Scottish Professor daughter of ambition was had five sous and threw himself into Broomhead, by whom he ship, and accordingly he succeeded 13th and energy. three daughters, and was the contest with his whole heart surviv- keen April 1793 by his youngest and on y In the trial of candidates, which was a son. Sir John, a colonel in the army, ; and he brought th< ing one, he was successful second daughter of teacher, a who married Jean, maturity of his experience as a Bal- Charles Mitchell, Esq. ot Piteadie and well as his rich scientific acquirements as a (and sister of the late Admiral Sir mathematician, to a chair, but too often bridee and of Sir Charles in the common Andrew MitcheU, filled with men unpractised Forbes, niece is Mitchell), by hiswife, Margaret life, and whose whole occupation ways df Bart, of Newball, by dream over a problem. Many of Sir David Forbes, to muse and left at his had several children ; but scientific men of the iiresent day can whom he of the only surviving daughter with gratitude the efficiency decease in 1823 an still remember married Andrew discharged the and heiress, Jane, who with which Mr Wallace of Clark, Esq. of Comrie Castle, county duties of hia Professorship, and the impulse 478 WAT FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. AVEM

Perth, who has assumed the additional that town, who was also a brewer. He surname of Wellwood, eldest son of Robert received his education at the school and Clark, Esq. of Comrie Castle, by Isabella, University of his native place, and aUo eldest daughter of R. Wellwood, Esq . of entered on the study of divinity ; but a Garvock, niece to the late Rev. Sir H. strong desire of improving himself in every MoncriefF Wellwood, Bart., and grand niece branch of human knowledge, under the to Sir R. Preston, of Valleyfield. Sir John most eminent professors, induced him to dying thus without male issue, the baro- remove first to the University of Glasgow, netcy devolved on his cousin. Sir William, and afterwards to that of Edinburgh. His who married in 1782 Elizabeth, daughter of ardour in the pursuit of learning led him to George Anderson, Esq., by whom he had study eight hours every day, a rule which " "^ e, born in 1785, a surgeon in he observed throughout his life. Having aiiplied himself, with great industry, to acquiring a knowledge of the principles of in 1820 ; Alexander, late baronet ; William, philosophical or universal grammar, he present baronet, and other children. The prepareapared ai course of lectures on style and eldest son to survive, Sir Alexander, born language.guage, and also one on rhetoric, both of in 1792, died unmarried in 1833, and was hich he delivered at Edinburgh, and on succeeded by his brother, the present this occasion he secured the countenance, baronet. Sir William Wardlaw, of Pitreavie, approbation, and friendship of Lord Kames, county of Fife, born 15th May 1794, suc- Mr Hume, and other eminent men of that ceeded his brother as thirteenth baronet, day. About this time he was licensed to

20th January 1833. preach ; and a vacancy having occurred in WARDLAW, Henkt, founder of the one of the churches of , he , and Bishop of offered himself a canditate for it, but was that See, was descended from the Wardlaws disappointed. Soon after, however, on the of Torrie in Fife. He was the nephew of retirement of Mr Rymer, he obtained the Walter Wardlaw, Bishop of Glasgow, who Professorship of Lojic in St Salvator's in 1381 was created a Cardinal by Pope College, to which was added, by patent Urban VI. Having received the usual from the Crown, that of Rhetoric and Belles education of one intended for the church, it Lettres. On the death of Principal Tulli- is supposed at the University of Paris, he delph, in November 1777, he was appointed, was appointed, by his uncle, Rector of Kil- through the influence of the Earl of Kinnoul, bride, and by virtue thereof became pre- Principal of the College, and at the same centor in the Cathedral Church of Glasgow. time presented to the church and parish of He afterwards went to Avignon, and while St Leonard. He had previously received there, was, in 1404, preferred by Pope the degree of Doctor of Laws. Dr Watson Benedict Xlll. to the vaciint See of St wrote the " History of Philip II. of Spain," Andrews. On his return to his native published in 1777, which obtained for him a country soon after, bearing the additional considerable degree of literary reputation. title of Pope's Legate for Scotland, his first He had finished the first four books of a care was to reform the lives of the clergy, "History of the Reign of PhUip III.," who had become notorious for their licen- when he died, March 31, 1781. The work tiousness and profligacy. In May 1410 was completed, by the addition of two more Bishop Wardlaw founded a College at St books, by Dr William Thomson, and Andrews, on the model of that of Paris, for published in 1783. Dr Watson married a teaching all manner of arts and sciences, for lady of singular beauty and virtue, the which, in the year following, he procured a daughter of Dr Shaw, Professor of Divinity confirmation from the Pope, having des- in St Mary's College, by whom he had five patched one Alexander Ogilvy for the pur- daughters, who survived him. pose. During the time he was Bishop two WEMYSS, Admiral James, was the persons were, by his orders, burnt at the eldest son of General Wemyss of Wemyss, stake for heresy ; the one of them, John M.P., his mother being a daughter of the Besby, an Englishman, in 1422, and the first General Sir William Erskine, who other, Paul Craw, a Bohemian, in 1432. served in America, and subsequently on the Bishop Wardlaw, according to Dempster, continent with H.R.H. the Duke of York. was the author of a book, "De Eeformatione Admiral Wemyss was born in 1789. He Cleri et Oratio pro Eeformatione con- entered the navy as a midshipman on board viviorum et luxus," which, however, ap- the Unicom frigate. Captain Charles pears to have been nothing more than a Wemyss, in 1801. We afterwards find him speech on the sumptuary laws of the king- serving in the Tonnant, 80, and Cidloden,

dom, delivered by the Bishop in the Parlia- 74 ; the former ship commanded by Sir ment that met at Perth in 1430. He died Edward Pellew, afterwards Ex- in the Castle of St Andrews, April 6, 1440, mouth, and employed off Ferrol and Co-

and was buried in the church of that city, runna ; the latter bearing that officer's flag with greater pomp than any of its predeces- as Commander-in-Chief in India. In 1807 sors had been. Mr Wemyss aoted as Lieutenant of the WATSON, Robert, LL.D., an elegant "Victor sloop. Captain George Bell, and bore historian, was born at St Andrews about a part in one of the most sanguinary fights 1730. He was the son of aa apothecary of that ever took place on any vessel's deck, 479 FTFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. WEM

by her he had three sons and a daughter- John (Sir), of Bogie, who became his

whom he served off the Scheldt and in the grandfather's heir ; David, of Balfarg, who Mediterranean, where he was j^romoted to carried on the Une of the family, as here-

the command of the Pylades sloop, 1st Feb- after mentioned ; Henry, whose descendants ruary 1812. On the 5th October 1813 Cap- now represent the famiJy, as shown here- tain Wemyss assisted at the capture of after. Sir James died in the year 1640, twenty-nine French vessels, lying in Port having lived to a very great age, and was d'Ansa, chiefly laden with timber for the succeeded by his grandson, Sir John Arsenal at Toulon. In April 1814 he re- Wemyss, who had the honour of knight- ceived the thanks of the House of Commons hood conferred on him by King Charles I. for his " ready assistance " during the suc- He married twice -first, Margaret, daughter

cessful operations against Genoa. Immedi- of Sir John Alton, of that Ilk ; and secondly, ately after the reduction of that fortress, a daughter of Sir Archibald Johnston, of Captain Wemyss was appointed to com- Warriston, by neither of whom had he any mand the Rainbow, 26, which ship he paid children. He lived in great extravagance, off in the month of December following. and died in 1679. leaving the estate over- His post commission bears date 1st July whelmed with debt, and was succeeded by 1814. Captain Wemyss married, 8th August Sir James Wemyss, eldest and only surviv- 182(1, Lady Emma Hay, sister to the Earl ing son of David, of Balfarg, who was a of Errol. The Admiral represented the great loyaUst, and invariably attached to County of Fife in Parliament for mauy the interests of the royal family. Being years, and was well known and highly negligent of his private affairs, and a very popular. bad economist, he greatly increased the WEMYSS, James Hat Erskine, Esq. encumbrances which were left upon the of Wemyss, M.P., Lord-Lieutenant of the estate by his uncle. Upon the death of County of Fife, was born on the 27th April David, Earl of Wemyss, in 1680, without 1 829. He was the son of Admiral Wemyss male issue. Sir James became the male

of Wemyss and Torry, one of the most representative ; and. by the old investitures, ancient famihes in Fifeshire, and Lady would have succeeded both to the estates Emma Hay, sixth daughter of William, and honours of Wemyss, but Earl David sixteenth Earl of Errol. On the 17th April having altered their destination, and having 1855, he married Millicent Anne Mary, resigned them into the hands of the Crown, second daughter of the late Honourable obtained a new grant of the estate and John Kennedy Erskine, of Dun, a direct honours to himself in liferent, and to his descendant of the famous reformer of that youngest daughter, and her heirs male in name. By this union Mr Wemyss left fee. The Nova Scotia baronetcy, however, issue, two sons and two daughters. The conferred on his predecessor, 29th May eldest son, Randolph Gordon, was bom in 1625, devolved on Sir James as the heir 1858. Mr Wemyss was elected M.P., for male (which he declined to assume), but he this county at the general election in 1859, and his posterity ever aftercarried the arms and discharged the duties of his position of Wemyss simply, without any mark of with faithfuluess and acceptability. On the cadence. He married a daughter of Sir death of the , the Queen was John Alton, of that Ilk, by whom he had pleased to bestow upon him the office of three sons and one daughter, who, with Lord-Lieutenant, Mr Wemyss died at their families, all died, excepting his eldest London on the 29th of March 1864, in the son, John. Sir James was, in 1704, thirty -sixth year of his age. On his death. created a baronet by Queen Anne, by

Sir Robert Anstruther, of B.alcaskie, patent to him and his heirs whomsoever ; Baronet, was appointed to fill his place, and dying soon thereafter was succeeded by both as representative of Fifeshire in Par- his only son. Sir John Wemyss, of Bogie, liament, and as Lord-Lieutenant of the who married a daughter of .Sir William County, Lockhart, advocate, by whom he left one WEMYSS of Bogie, The Familt of.— son. Sir James Wemyss, of Bogie, who, Sir James Wemyss, the first of the being no economist, found himself, not Wemyss', of Bogie, was the second son of Sir many years after his succession, in such David Wemyss. lord of that Ilk, progenitor difficulties as to be under the necessity of of the Earls of Wemyss. He obtained from parting with the family estate which had his father, in patrimony, the lands of Bogie, been handed down to him loaded with debt. with many others too numerous to specify. He accordingly sold it, and retired to his Sir James had the honour of knighthood house in Kirkcaldy, where he died a conferred upon him by King James VI., bachelor a few years afterwards. Upon and was appointed Vice-Admiral of Scotland that event the representation in the male in 1591. He married Margaret, daughter line devolved on the descendants of Henry of Sir John Melville, of Raith, by whom he Wemyss, third son of James, and grandson had several children, but none of them of Sir James Wemyss, the first of Bogie, arrived at maturity, except one son, James, the eldest surviving of whom was the Rev. who married Margaret, daughter of Andrew James Wemyss, minister of the parish of Kininmonth, of that Ilk, by Helen, his Burntisland, his great-grandson, who mar- wife, daughter of Henry, Lord Sinclair, and ried Christian, daughter of Samuel Charteris, 480 WIL FIFESHIRE BIOGHAPHY. WIS

Esq., Solicitor of Customs for Scotland. By late Rev. John Munlnch, at K.itb, Banff- that lady he left several daughters and one shire, where the must if th. I'.piscopal son, Sir James Wemyss, the jiresent baronet, candidates for holy on h IS tli. ii r.,Tivi-daU who was served heir to the baronetcy on the their lore. He was uin.- uv tc n ytiirs in Mr death of his father. Murdoch 'efamily, and wj.i agrcat l.n uurite. WEMYSS, Sir James, of Bo^ie, suc- Bishop Jolly, when he came on his annual ceeded to the baronetcy uf Nova Scotia on visitations, was particularly fond of him, the demise of his father in 1821. and took great delight in hearing of his sage WILKIE, Sir David, a celebrated Scot- demeanour, which Mr Murdoch was from tish painter, was bom in the parish of Cults, time to time so proud to boast of. When Fifeshire, on the 18th November 178-5. He a boy at Keith he always accompanied was the third son of the Esv. David Wilkie, Bishop Jolly on his rounds through his minister of Cults, Having very early dis- small diocese. Mr Wilson afterwards went played his ability for drawing, his father to King's College, Aberdeen, and then to sent him in 1799 to the Trustees' Academy the Pantonian Theological Hall in Edin- in Edinburgh. In 1803 he won the first burgh, presided over by Primus James premium for painting in the Academy, and Walker and Bishop RusseU. He then went returned home in the following year. He as a tutor to some families in Leith and now earned his living by painting small Fortrose. Afterwards, when he was of portraits, and he had made great progress age. Bishop Low ordained him in St m the practice of painting. He went to John's, Pittenweem, in 1827, to a-ssi.st as London in 1804, and lived for some time Deacon in Inverness-shire, from which he " unnoticed ; but his Village Politicians," went to Ayr to gather the members of the exhibited in 1806, laid the foundation of his church in that town and environs. He reputation. His "Blind Fiddler " exhibited wrought hard for many years, not receiving in the following year as one of his master- more than £30 yearly as stipend ; but he hsla pieces. He was elected an associate of the raised a large plain chapel wherein most of Royal Academy in 1809, and a member in the county families assemble for worship. 1811. In 1826 he went to Kome, and spent Summer visitors crowd to it during the three years in visiting Italy and Spain. bathing season, and now it is in a most pros- Wilkie was knighted in 1836. In 1840 he perous condition. Mr Wilson had three set out on a tour to the East, yiainted the brothers and two sisters. David, the eldest, portrait of the young Sultan at Constanti- went out to India, and made a fortune, and nople, and died on his way home in the returned and bought the estate of Inchrye. Straits of Gibraltar in 1841. Wilkie 's works He died there suddenly in 1862. James are very numerous. They are well known also went abroad, and being equally success- from engravings. The two already men- ful returned to his native county, and tioned and his "Chelsea Pensioners" are bought a property in Kinross-shire, which perhaps the finest of his works. Thomas, the Bishop on his brother "s decease succeeded , sat to him for his portrait, to as well as Inchrye. The office of Synod and it was placed in the county room at Clerk in the Diocese of Glasgow and Gallo- Cupar. way was long satisfactorily filled by the Rev. WILSON, Robert, was born in the Mr Wilson, and after the demise of the ami- parish of Carnbee. Having received a able W. Wade, of Paisley, by whose laborious classical education he studied for the medi- exertions the church there was built, he cal profession, and practised for some time succeeded to the Deanship. Bisho]) Trower in St Andrews. Being of a literary turn resigning his See in 1859 the suffrages ot he has contributed many pieces of descrip- his brethren tell on Dean Wilson, and he tive verse to the periodicals. In 1856 he was then consecrated Bishop of Glasgow published a duodecimo volume of " Poems" and Galloway. As successor to two such at Boston, United States. His other publi- men as Bishops Russell and Trower Bishop cations are a small volume on " The Social Wilson had a place to fill as difficult as it is Condition of France," " Lectures on the Jionourable. He brought to his task, Game Laws," and several brochures on however, the ripe experience gained in a subjects of a socio-political nature. He long and faithful exercise of the second resi

woo FIFESSIEE ET0C4RAPHY. WOO the ecclesiastical authorities and condemned which his father had occupied ia that of as a heretic on account of the denunciations James IV. In 1.526, when the monarch of the worship paid to the Virgin. He then was fifteen years old, he granted to him by went abroad and spent some time in Ger- charter the lands of East Dron, in Fife. In many and Switzerland. On his return, he 1528, on the forfeiture of the Earl of Angus, entered Corpus Cliristi College, Cambridge, he received a grant of the lands of BaUen- where he diligently prosecuted his own darg and Drumshed, in the regality of studies, and faithfully superintended the Kirriemuir, and also the half of the King's studies of others. In i54.3 Wishart returned lands of Shiremuir. In 1537 we find him to Scotland, and preached with great in possession of the half of Lingo, and in earnestness and success in Montrose and 1538, on the forfeiture of Lord Glammis, he Dundee. In consequence of the opposition received a grant of the Island of Inchkeith, of the Romish party he was compelled to *' lying in our sea, overag.ainst our burgh of withdraw from Dundee, and proceeding to Kinghorn," on condition of delivering the west country, preached to great multi- twenty-four rabbits yearly at the feast of tudes in Ayrshire. He was afterwards con- the circJimcision. In 1541 be has a new fined, on account of his reformed doctrines, charter of Norther Fawfield and Frostleyis, in the Castle of Edinburgh, and was after- in which these lands are said to have wards transferred to that of St Andrews. formerly belonired to David Myrton, of Eighteen charges were brought against him Ciunbo. On the 16th of June 1542 he re- relating to the number of the sacraments, ceived a new charter of the lands of Largo, auricular confession, extreme unction, HallhUl, and Mouturpie, (Montripple), prayer to saints, the marriage of priests, and Fawfield, Frostleyis, and Inchkeith, all by a other dogmas of the Romish Church, and new tenure, incorporated with the lands of though he made a vigorous and impressive Largo into a barony. At the close of the defence, he was, of course, found guilty, same year he was one of those present at the and condemned to be burned. Wishart melancholy de.ath of James V. at Falkland. bore his agonizing sufferings with great In 1546 he acquired the lands of Balbrekie fortitude, and died expressing his confident from James, son of John Douglas, of Bal- hope of a reward in heaven. There can be brekie, in payment for money advanced by little doubt that the public indignation, him. In 1547 he was taken prisoner at the to battle of Pinkie and in 1564 he received, in excited by his execution, contributed _; hasten both the death of Cardinal Beaton, his return for his faithful services, a new grant judge, and the downfall of Popery in Scot- of the half of Shiremuir. In 1566 he pur- land. .Evidence has been adduced, however, chased from the the lands of from the State Paper Office, to prove that Ballingall and Pitgeddie, in the barony of Wishart was a party to a plot against the Leslie, which were settled on his third son, Cardinal's life, which deprives Wishart of James. Andrew Wood was twice married the honour of martyrdom. first, c. 152f!, to Alisou Home, daughter of .and secondly, before WOOD, The Family of.—The name of Home of Unthank ; Wood occurs at an early period in the Scot- 1573, to Dame Jean Forman Lady Kellie. tish annals. William de Bosco was Can- He died in 1579. By his first wife he had TiiUydavie, to cellarius Regis, and is mentioned from 1170 Andrew ; John, of whom we to 1246. The Woods of Craig in Angus, of have given a separate article; J.ames, the Bonytonin the same county, and of Golpny ancestor of the Woods of Lambieletham and in Aberdeen, were all of them ancient Grange ; William ; Arthur, of Gatesyde ( who families, probably springing from one com- had two children, Robert and Agnes) ; and mon stock. The Woods of Largo, the only Elizabeth, who married WiUiam Bruce of branch belonging to the county of Fife, Earlshall. Thomas, the father of John were founded by Admiral Sir Andrew Wood, Wood, who built the hospital at Largo, was the first iiaird of Largo. (See separate probably his youngest son. See John article.) His children were—Andrew, who Wood. Andrew Wood, son of the last, succeeded him, and Alexander, vicar of died a few days before his father, so that he North Berwick and of Largo, who, in 1560^ was never Laird of Largo. In 1556 he re- had " The Grange " from the Nuns of North ceived a royal charter confirming a grant to Berwick, in pledge for a sum of £1000 lent him by his father of the lands of Balbrekie. by him, which was spent in repairing thf In the same year he married Giles or injury done to the convent by the English. Egidia Goiirl.ay, who survived him. His Robert (who had a In 1565 he received an absolute charter to children were Andrew ; these lands, and in 1572 a charter of Earls- daughter, Helen); and Helen, who perhaps ferry and its harbour. He married, after mamed Patrick Learmonth of Callange. 1548, Elizabeth Crichton, widow of Dish- Andrew Wood of Largo, the third laird, ington of Ardross, and died in 1592, leaving was made coroner of Fife in 1.582. This no legitimate issue. Besides these sons. office had formerly been held by Michael Sir Andrew had also Robert, and possibly Balfour of Burlie, but was given to Wood James and Henry, and adaughter, Catherine, because Michael Balfour, grandson of the married to Alexander Spens, some say of former, and son of James Balfour, of Pitten- Lathallan, and others of Wormiston. An- dreich, was incapable of holding it, by drew Wood, the second Laird of Largo, held reason of the forfeiture of his father on miurder of in the favour of James V. the same place account of his concern in the ;

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Darnley. Andrew Wood was also Comp- Balhousie, near Perth, in 1095 and 1C98 as troller (computor rotuloruin) from 1581 to chamberlain to Thomas Hay, of Balhousie, 1587 ; and on hia resigning that office ho afterwards Viscount DuppUn, and although was found to have spent, in bearing the there is no proof of the relatiousliip he may expenses of the royal house, nearly seven have been a relative of Andrew Wood, thousand pounds out of his own means, for fiar of Largo. He died in 1790, leaving seven thousand merles of which he had three sons. The eldest, Robert, was Under- burdened the estate of Largo. This is ack- Secretary of State for Scotland during the nowledged in a letter under the great seal, Secretaryship of the Earl of Roxburgh, which goes on to say " that as no present with whom he claimed kindred. Perhaps occasion ofTers for repaying the said debt he is the same Robert Wood who is made Andrew and his heirs shall have full power burgess of Perth in 1078 as servitor of to hold the barony of Largo, notwithstand- Henry Ker, brother of the Earl of Rox- ing of its being thus once pledged." In burgh. The second surviving son of the 1591 he has a charter of novodamus of Shire- Rev. Alexaudcr W I «;is WilUam, who muir; and in 1594 and 15'J6 he has new in 1695 was i.i.M,, I,,;,-," «- .,f Perth, whence charters to the barony of Largo, compre- he removed t' I'ai^l.v, and finally settled in hending Largo, the Cotelands, and Myhie- Glasgow. 11,- is i;„.,ui..i.od in Carlyle's lands, the Mylnetoun, and Seatoun ; Halhill Aiitobioi,'raiili\-, p. lUo. The third son was and Montripple; Fawfields, Frostleyis, Mark, \ylio settled ill Perth, where he was Brewerslands ; Inchkeith ; Balbreky, Bal- ai>prriiticLd in li;'JM, and Ijecarae a burgess breky Mill, Auldhall, and Shiremuir. iu 17U.-,. TliL- ,l.ildrfu of William Wood, He married Elizabeth , by whom of XitliLT GaUowbill, IJeufrcw, were John, he had Andrew ; John (who had three Governor of the Isle of Mac, who died sons — Robert, Andrew, and John) without male issue ; Andrew, Rector of William, Lilias, Isabella, and Christina, The pecuniary difficulties in which the family was placed compelled at last the the anuy, who married Lady Catherine sale of the estates. Previously to the s;ile. Cofluaue, only daughter of Thomas, Andrew Wood, of Largo, with c^iisi'ut uf sixth Earl of DuDundonald, and had his eldest son, Andrew, unuitf.J four dauyliter, Mary, who mairied Robert charters, which all received confiruui- joy;J I!oyK', of Shettleston, and bad issue ; Alex- tion. The first, dated 1007, was iu favour .-inder, who died young ; and several of his second son, John, granting him au daughters, one of whom married a gentle- annuity of two chaUlei-s of barley from thu man of the name of Blair, and had a lands of Largo. The other three, bearing daughter who became Lady Kinfauns. the common date of 1610, are in favour of Mark Wood, of Perth, married Jean his daughters, granting to each of them a Mercer, of PotterhiU. His children were— third part of the lands of Shiremuir, Alexander, of Burncroft ; Thomas, who died Norther Fawfields, and Over Cummerlands. young ; and Robert, a physician in Perth, He died soon after, but the exact date is not to whom we shall return. Alexander ascertained. Andrew Wood, fiar of Wood, of Burncroft, who became heir and Largo, never entered into possession of the hneal representative of the G o vernor of Man, estate, which was sold in his father's life- married Jean, daughter of R. Ramsay, of time. He married Jean Drummond, second Dundee, aiKl died in 1778. His chUdren daughter of the first Lord Madderty, and were Su- .Mark Wood, of Gattonspark appears to ; have attached himself to the Sir < V-or-e Hay Wood, of Ottershaw Park court ; now removed to London ; and pro- Sir .James .itlioll Wood, and other children bably this course of life tended to increase who died unmarried or without male issue. the encumbrances of the family. In 1(J32 Of these three sons Sir James died immar- he became burgess of Perth, and in 1G35 he ried ; Sir Mark married Rachel Dashwood, procured the same honour for his servant or and died in 1829, leaving a daughter, apprentice, Andrew Drummond, natural son Rachel, married to jW. J. Lockwood, of of Lord Madderty. Andrew Wood had no Dews Hall, and a son, Sir Mark Wood, issue, and with him krunnated the direct who married Eliza Newton, of Standon of the Une family. In 17i 5 His E.'ccellency Hall, and died without issue in 1837, thus John Wood. (S.Jveruor of the Isle of Man, opening the succession to his cousin. Sir obtained matriculatiim in the Herald's George Hay Wood married Frances Office of the arms of Wood, of Largo, as Remington, of Bartonend House, and died chief of the name. He traced his descent in 1824. His children were George, late of from the Rev. Ale.xauder Wood, an Epis- Ottershaw and Potterspark, now of Chil- copal clergymaxL, outed about 1090. This down, bom 1814 (who on the death of his Alexander is said to have married a daughter cousin. Sir Mark Wood, claimed to be heir of the Rev. Richard Bromi, of Salton, who male and representative of the f.amily of again married a daughter of the Rev. Robert Wood, of Largo, and was so matriculated in Ker, of Haddington, who was a son of the the Herald's College); Fr.au ces Mary, Kev. John Ker, of Salt Preston, who was a married in 1831 to the Rev. Hor.atio Mon- son of Ker, of Fawdon Side, by his second tague; and Georgina, married in 1835 to wife, the widow of John Kno.x. This Rev. Lord George Paulet. We return now to Alexander Wood was certainly residing at Robert Wood, physician in Perth, youngest woo FIFESHIEE BIOGRAPHV.

Bon of Mark Wood, who married Anne, Melgum (probably held of Wood of Largo,) daughter of James Smith, of Aithairney. besides detached portions of Strathtyrum, His children were—James, of Keithock ; Coutraj, and Ardross ; also several tene- William, father of James and of Mrs ments in Pittenweem. He married, c. 1597, Collins ; Thomas, a lieutenant-colonel ; and a Elizabeth, fourth daughter of Sir David daughter married to Martin Lindsay, of Wemvss, by whom he had one son, and died Dowhill. There was another family of in 1606. James Wood, of Grang e and Woods at Largo probably connectetl with Lam bieletbam, was a minor at his father's the lairds of Largo. The first of whom we death, and his uncle William was his tutor. have to mention is "Andrew Wood in the He appears to have sold Lambieletham. Kirkton of Largo," who styles the then Before 1638 he married Margaret Munro, laird " his master." He died in 1581, leav- and in 1647 he married Catherine Pitcaim, ing two sons, Andrew and Alexander, " in from the parish of Falkland. He was the Kirkton.'' The latter married Helen plundered bya troop of Cromwell's horse then Swayne, and died in 1595, leaving four quartered at Burntisland, and died in 1669, daughters. Andrew Wood, the other son, being buried the next day for fear of the became laird of Stravithie, and was twice creditors arresting the corpse. His children were James, his heir, Elizabeth, and Catherine, who, in 1640, married Captain dingston, who survived him. He died in Kinninmont. James Wood, of Grange, 1610, leaving Andrew, second laird of who, in 1644, married Elizabeth, sister of

Stravithie ; Helen, who married Andrew Sir WUliam Nisbet, of the Dean. In 1648 he

Stevenson, burgess of Pittenweem ; and pro- was Rutemaster in Prince Charles' Life bably James, who married Catherine Greg, Guard, and levied a troop of horse, for which had in 1593 a charter to some property in service an Act of Parliament was passed in Pittenweem, and died before 1598. It is his favour in 1661. The estate of Grange well to mention that about the time when was sold immediately after his father's Admiral Sir Andrew Wood received the death, and so none of his children inherited estate of Largo there was another Andrew it. He left John, born in 1651, and James, Wood styled " hostiarius is Camerae Regis," bom in 1657 ; but nothing more known of or " doorkeeper of the king's chamber," this branch of the family. William Wood, who in 1488 received royal letters, granting second son of the first Laird of Grange, who to him the lands of Balbigno. 1+ was pro- died in 1606, appears to have had several bably the same individual who in 1491 children. Two of them, Andrew and David, purchased the lands of Eathill, in the county settled in Earlsferry, and were magistrates of Perth, and is in the charter styled in that burgh. The third, James, resided " dilecto familiari armit/ero Andreae Wood in Elie. He appears in ]6!5l> as witness, de Blairtown, hostiario camerae nostrae." along with Lundie of Strathairly, and Lind- He seems to have been ancestor of the say of the Mount, at the baptism of the son Woods of Balbigno, and has sometimes of William Lundie, in Lundie Mill. This been confounded with the Admiral. We James Wood seems to have had three

now turn to the Woods, of Grange, who children, William ; John, who married spring from James, third son of the second ElspethHe'nders6n;and Margaret. William laird of Largo, who in 1566 purchased Wood resided in Earlsferry in a hous'e whicE" Grange from his brother, John Wood, of eveft at tBii TTresCTrfrTfefTrears the mark of TuUydavie, who had bought it from his having been superior to its neighbours. He

uncle, Alexander. In 1585 he acquired was twice married ; first, to Elspeth Smith, from Alexander Hay, Clerk Register, the and secondly, to Janet Wilson in EUe in half of the lands of Balrymont Wester. 1708. His children were John, born 24th

In 1591 he receives a charter to one- March 1692 ; Catherine, bom 1695, who

third of the lands and mylne of Lambie- married Patrick Cowie ; and Ann. John letham, which had formerly belonged to Wood was entered at Drumeldrie School as Andrew Lundy, brother of the laird of a bursar in 1705, was infeft in his father's Lundy, as well to another third which had house in 1720, and was baillie of Earlsferry

been acquired by him ; and in 1595 he has a in 1722 and 1725. He married, in 1721, charter to the Newmylne, near St Andrews. Ann, daughter of James Carstairs, tenant Hemarried, c. 1566, Janet Balfour, daughter in Kincraigden, by whom he had James,

of David Balfour, of Burghlie, and Annas born 1721 ; William, born 1723 ; and John,

Forrester, by whom he had Thomas, who bom 1738, to each of whom we shall return ;

Eredeceased his father ; Alexander, his and Margaret, who married WUliam Sym,

eir ; William, to whom we return ; James, farmer in the parish of Forgan, and after-

who died unmarried in 1597 ; Helen, Mar- wards of Kilmany. James, Captain and garet, and Christian. James Wood died in merchant in Elie," married, in 1746, Mary, 1596. Alexander Wood, of Grange and daughter of Alexander Chalmers. His

Lambieletham, inherited from his father, children were Alexander, born 1755 ; and besides these lands, the Newmylne, Balry- Anna, born 1757, who married Walter mont Wester, Gawstoun, Gallorig, and Wood, merchant in Elsiueur, and whose

Oluny, in the barony of Pittencrieti' ; half son we shall have to mention immediately. the lands of Lochtown, in the barony of Alexander Wood, merchant in EUe, married,

Kippo : Monturpie and the third part of in 1780, Ann, daughter of the Rev. John 1S4 :

woo FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. WOO Nairn, by whom he had Mary, his heiress. the second conjunctly with Mary Wood his wife, Agnes married her cousin, James Gray. Probably he was another son of the Wood, M.D., son of Walter Wood and of Admiral's older than Robert and very Anne likely Wood: and their surviving children was the James Wo'id in whose ship tha are the Rev. Walter Wood, Elie, and Alex- Lyon Herald went to France in September ander Wood, M.U., Edinbnrph. William 1514. Perhaps Mr Henry Wood who, in Wood, the second son of John Wood and 1 497 has a jiresentation to the Deanery of Carstain, Ann married, in 177.5, Ann, Restalrig " quhan it sal happen to vak," daughter of Patrick Chalmers. His children was another son of the Admiral. By James were John ; Patrick, to whom we have given III. Sir Andrew was employed in several a separate article ; Walter, who married warlike and diplomatic missions which he Miss Denniston and died witliout issue executed with fidelity and honour. His Anna Mary, and Helen. John Wood mar- genius for naval warfare had been culti- ried Miss Denniston, and is represented by vated by his frequent encounters with his eldest son William, merchant m New French, EngUsh, and Portuguese pirates, in York. John Wood, third son of John Wood defence of his ships and merchandise, as a and Ann Carstairs, married Mary Crook, Leith merchant trader. He possessed and daughter of a West India merchant. He commanded two armed vessels of about 300 had many children, most of whom died tons each, called the May Flower and the without issue. We shall only notice Henry Yellow Caravel. With these he made Wood, who settled in Edinburgh, and mar- voyages to the Dutch and Hanse towns, ried Elizabeth Walrond, by whom he had whither in those days the Scots sent wool John Stewart, Alexander, Henry, William, and hides, bringing "therefrom small mer- and Theodore. John Stewart Wood married, cery .ind haberdashery ware in great first, Mary Ann Buclianan, and second, quantities ; moreover half the Scottish ships Catharine Paterson, relict of Charles Kocheid came generally laden irom Flanders with of Inverlfcith, and died in 1863, leaving issue cart-wheels and wheelbarrows. ' He bravely by both marriages. attacked and repulsed a squadron of English WOOD, Sir Andrew, of Largo, a cele- shijjs which appeared in the Firth of Forth brated Scottish Admiral of the sixteenth in 1481, and the same year gallantly and century. — This noted ocean warrior is successfully defended Dumbarton when generally stated to have been born about besieged by the fleet of Edward IV. Four the middle of the fifteenth century at the years before this, however, Sir Andrew old Kirkton of Largo. The only evidence appears to have obtained letters of infeuda- bearing on this point, however, is a charter tion, conveying to him the King's lands of in his favour in 1490, giving to him and his Largo, to •' keep the King's ship in repair, wife the Cotelands and milne lands of Largo, to pilot and convey the King and Queen in which formerly belonged to Helen Arnot, visit to St Adrian's Chajiel in the Isle of daughter and heiress of the deceased John May." James III. granted him as Master Arnot, of Largo, and spouse " of the deceased of the Yellow Kerval " (Alexander. Duke William Wood, and which were resigned by of Albany, being then Lord High Admiral), her. Such a charter might, of course, fol- a charter of the lands of Largo, and the low on a purchase of these lands by Sir same monarch, on 18th March 1482, con- Andrew from Helen Wood, but it is also ferreil on him for his eminent services bj possible that William Wood and Helen land and sea, in peace and in war, by Arnot were the father and mother of the another charter under the Great Seal to him Admiral. Sir Andrew may have been and his heirs in fee the lands and village of descended from the Woods of Bonuyton in Largo. He also knighted him. This charter Angus, as Abercrombie says he was. was confirmed by James IV. in 1497. Sir There appears, at any rate, to have been Andrew Wood is famed in the history of his some acknowledged affinity between the country no less for his faithful adherence to families, for as early as 1511 there is the his sovereign when abandoned by his nobles, confirmation of a charter by Sir Andrew than for his courage and naval skill. Prior Wood, of Largo, in favour of Walter to 1487 he appears to have entirely given up trading as a merchant, and to have devoted himself to the service of the King. Early designed in charters " Commorantiin Leith." in 1488, when the rebelUous nobles had In 1470 he gifted a house in Leith to Trinity collected an army and marched upon the College, Edinburgh, and in 1509 he morti- capital, the King took refuge on board one fied to the Kirk of Largo the rents of two of Sir Andrew Wood's ships, then anchored tenements in Leith. The first mentioned in Leith Roads, and crossing over to Fife, house can be traced in the Trinity College landed there, resolved to throw himself on records, first in 1558, into the j-ossession of his northern subjects for support. The his sou, Robert, who married Elizabeth ships of the Admiral had been lying at Logan, probably of the Logans of Restalrig, Leith for some time previous to sailing for and secondly into the bands of Thomas, son Flanders, and, on their weighing anchor, a of this Robert, who succeeded him in 1573. report was spread that James had fled to But in 1511 and 1515 James Wood has the low countries. Upon this the malcon- charters to the same house ; the first time tents " seized on his luggage and furniture conjunctly with his wife, Janet Mugy, and in their passage to the Forth, surprised his 485 ) ;

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castle of , furnished themselves hostages, whom his sailors were preparing a.rm3 and ammunitions out of the royal to hang at the yard-arm, despairing of the stores, and o ven-an the three Lothians and the return of the Admiral. Of Sir Andrew Merse, rifling and plundering all honest Wood's interview with the rebel Lords, men. " James speedily found himself at the Lindsay of Pitscottie has given a graphic head of a well appointed force of 30,000 and circumstantial account, and although men, and re-crossing the Forth in April the aflFecting statement that the young King,

1488 he marched past Stirhng, and pitched James IV. , mistook him for his father has his standard near the ancient Castle of been generally received, yet is this likely to Blackness. He soon, however, disbanded have been the case ? There is no hint in his army, on account of a pacific: history of his ever having been excluded which then took place ; but the rebel lords from his father's company, and at the time again mustering their vassals, he of the interview tlie youthful King was six- defeated at Sauchieburn on the 11th of the teen years of age, and must (we should sup- following June, and the unfortunate pose) have tnown his father's personal ap- monarch, on riding from the field, fell from pearance well. Besides, is it at all probable his horse, and was stabbed to death by a that he could have been misled by the noble pretended priest in the miller's cottage at and dignified aspect of the Admiral, or by Beaton's Mill, a hamlet in Baunockbum, any fancied resemblance which he bore to into which he had been carried at the time James III., as some writers assume? We he was endeavouring to make his way across rather think not. This would make a mere the country to Sir Andrew Wood at Alloa, child of him, though then a young man. where the latter was cruising with his two The insurgent nobles, indignant at the re- ships—the May Flower and Yellow Caravel, proof they had received from Sir Andrew, On the right bank of the Forth Sir Andrew .summoned all the skippers of Leith to their kept several of his boats close by the shore councils, and commanded them to rig and to receive the King if the tide of battle man all their ships to subdue Andrew Wood

turned against him ; and he often landed hut their answer was, that ten of their best with his brothers, John and Robert, and " a ships would not be able to cope with his competent number of men, hoping to share two. Notwithstanding these angry passages in the dangers of the day, but no such between Sir Andrew and the nobles, he opportunity occurred." The insurgent appears to have received from the young nobles had advanced with their victorious King the same m.irks of confidence which army to LinUthgow, and a report reached had been bestowed In' his father. James their camp that while sailing up and down III. was slain in June"l488, and on the 27th the Forth Sir Andrew Woods ships had of July in the same year a charter passed been seen taking on board men wounded in the Great Seal, confirming the former the battle, and there was good reason for charters which he had received, and espe- believing that the King, whose fate was cially quoting at length the charter of 1482. unknown, having eflfected his escape, was During the next year, although there was a on board one of them. This occasioned the truce with England, EngUsli pirate ships insurgents to remove their camp to Leith. infested the coast of Scotland, and the King Thence messengers were sent to Sir Andrew, applied to Sir Andrew Wood to rid the in name of James, Duke of Rothesay, Prince country of this annoyance, recommending of Scotland, the King's son (whom the him at the same time to add to the number insurgents had kept with them and of his vessels, that he might be able to meet forced to act against his father), to enquu-e if this was the case. Sir Andrew solemnly declared that the King was not Firth. "No," said the Adrau-al, "I will with him, and gave the messengers leave to have only my own two, the Flower and the search the ships. A second message was Yellow Caravel. " And so he drojiped down sent requesting an interview. To this he agreed, on condition that the Lords Seton and Fleming should remain on board his ships as hostages for his safe return. On and after an obstinate combat, of which no his appearance before the council, and being record has been preserved, he brought the introduced to the young Prince (J ames IV. whole fleet as prizes into the roads of Leith. he is said to have wept as he approached, For this service he received a |ieusion of " " timidly asking, Sir, are you my father ? £20 from the fee mails ,.f Largo. In 1400 '* No,'' said Sir Andrew, "I am not your he received the charter ah-ea(iy mentioned father, but his faithful servant, and the f the Cotelands of Largo, which appears, enemy of those who occasioned his down- owever, as has been said before, to have fall." Again he was asked whether the een the consequence of a purchase or a ' King was not in one of his ships. ' I would private gift, and not of the royal favour. If to heaven he were," was the reply, " for we are to believe the Scottish historians. then he would be in safety ; then I could King Henry of England, although in the defend him from the traitors, who, I fear, time of truce, he could not openly attemjit have slain him, and whom I hope to see retahation, or give his countenance to rewarded as they deserve." He then with- hostilities, took care to let it be understood drew, just in time to save the lives of the that nothing would be more grateful to him 486 —

woo FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. WOO than the defeat and capture of WomI ; and indenture between the King and Sir Stephen Bull, an enterprising merchant and Andrew, by which the latter receives "all seaman of London, was encouraged to fit and haill the Mains of Dunbar with the outthree vessels, manned by picked mariners, keys of the Castle ;" and in the following a body of crossbows, and pikemen, with year there is a protection granted to him various knights their ser- who volunteered under the Privy Seal " against all causes vices. With these he set forth in the month movit against hira or Elizabeth, his spouse, of July 1490, intending to intercept Sir by the Kmg's Highness or any other per- return Andrew on his voyage from Holland, son.'' What the cause for granting this whither he had been convoying a fleet of protection was cannot now be discovered. Scottish merchantmen. Then ensued that In 1503, during the sitting of Parliament, famous of naval combat, which historians he obtained anew charter to himself and his give so full an account, and which the min- wife of the lands of Largo with the Cote- strels of the day celebrated throughout aH lands, myhie lands and brewlands of the Europe same, on account of " the good gratuitous and faithful service rendered by him both in The Scotsmen foxiglit like lions bold, peace and war, ^Vnd mony English slew and because of his defending ; our castle The slau^'hter tli:it they made that day, of Dunbar at the time when an The English folk saU rue. English fleet and army came by sea to besiege and take it." No notice of any The battle fiercely it was fought. such expedition is to be found in the pages Near to the Craig of Bassa ; of our histori.ins. In the same year, how- WTien n.xt we fight the English loons, ever, he is required to deliver the Ca.stle o£ Dunbar into the hands of Andrew, Bishop As a mark of royal favour, Sir Andrew re- of Moray, who receives a nine years' tack ceived a charter under the Great Seal, of of the aiains of Dunbar. Shortly after, date the ISth of May 1491, in which license probably in 1504, Sir Andrew Wood was is given him to " buUd a castle at Largo employed along with Barton in command of with iron gates, on account of the great ser- a fleet against the insurgent chieftains of vices done and losses sustained by the said the Isles, in which expedition he was as Andrew, and for the services it was con- iisual eminently successful. Laying siege to the strong insular fidently hoped he would yet render ; and fortress of Kernburg, because the said Andrew had, at great per- after an obstinate resistance by the sonal expense, built certain houses and a iMacIans of Lilencoe, and the warriors of fortalice on the lauds of Largo, Iji/ the hands Torfiuil -Macleod, he succeeded in reducing of Enylisluiicii captured hij him, with the it, and in making prisoner Sir Donald Dim. object of resisting and expelling pirates wlio Sailing up the Sound of Jura, the Admiral had often invaded the kingdom and attacked sent Sir Donald to the ancient castle of the lieges. " In 1494 Sir Andrew obtained Innes-Connel in Lochawe, from which, the lands of Norther Fawfields by advanc- however. Sir Donald escaped three years ing the sura of £100 owing by Arthur subsequently. On his return Sir Andrew Forbes of Hires, for which the lands had been acquired some additional land at Largo, for distrained. In 1504 he received another in 1.506 he has a charter under the Great Seal charter, confirming two charters of sale, to two acres which formerly belonged to granted by WUliam Forbes, of Hires, son of John Brown. Meanwhile the Scottish

Arthur Forbes ; the one of the lands of navy continued to flourish, and it became Frostleyis, and the other of the lands of the King's desire to possess the largest and Norther Fawfields. And finally, in 1-511, most magnificent ship in the world. Louis there is a further charter by which King XII., of France, sent him shipbuilders and James confirms the sale by William Forbes two large vessels as models, and in the year "to an honourable man, Andrew Wood, of 1512 Jacques Farette finished the " Great Largo, and his spouse, of my lands of Michael,'' which had been sever.al years in Norther Fawfields and Frostleyis, on building in the royal docks at Newhaven, account of a certain sum of money gi-atui- then named " Our Lady's Port of Grace." tously and wholly discharged for me in the Her length was 240 feet, and her breadth 56 time of my great exigency and urgent neces- feet to the water's edge, but only 36 within. sity, by the hands of the said Andrew." She carried 35 guns and 300 small artillery, In a similar way Sir Andrew seems to have while her complement was 300 seamen, acquired, in 1505, the dominical lands of besides otiicers, 120 gunners, and 1000 Eossie, in liquidation of a debt due to him soldiers. Admiral Sir Andrew Wood was by David Eossie of that Ilk. From the appointed to be her captain, and Barton her time of the defeat of Stephen Bull, Sir An- lieutenant ; but when in the following year drew held a place very near the throne ; and King James unwisely resolved to commence his wise counsels, especially in commercial hostihties with England, the fleet of thirteen matters, were much listened to by the King. great ships, at the head of which was the Under hie direction measures were taken for , was put under the command building a fleet, as the discovery of America of the , a nobleman of no had by this time turned the attention of all experience in naval affahs. Instead of the sovereigns of Europe to naval afl'airs. obeying the orders he had received from the In the year 1500 there is a notice of an King, who, with the object of < ;

woo FIFESHIRB BIOGRAPHY. WOO his seamen, embarked in the Great Micliael, family aisle of Largo Church, where his and remained on board till they had passed toDib is still pointed out. Within the j the May, Arran conducted the fleet to grounds which surround Large House there Carrickfergus -which he stormed and pil- is a circular tower which formed part of the laged, retmuing to Ayr with his plunder. old castle inhabited by Sir Andrew, and Incensed by such conduct, Jamesdes patched which, it Is alleged, once formed a jointure Sir Andrew Wood to supersede Arran in house of ! the Queens of Scotlaud. Sir the command, but before the experienced Andrew left by his wife, Elizabeth Lundie, seaman could reach the coast the fleet had whom he married before 1487, three sons again sailed. Some doubt hangs over the and a daughter, some account of whom will fate of this armament. Part of it certainly be found in the article. Wood, Family of. reached France, whether it was destined, The lands and barony of Largo passed from but the Great Michael is said to have been the descendants of Sir Andrew Wood to a lost by Arran in an exploit against Bristol Mr Peter Black, and from him to Sir and the defeat of Flodden intervening, she Alexander Gibson, of Durie, who sold them was robbed of her equipage, and rotted on to Sir Alexander Durham, Lord-Lyon- the coa.st in course of years. While King King-at-Arms, with whose descendants James was making preparations for the fatal they still remain. expedition which terminated .so ruinously at WOOD, Mr John, of Tullydavie, was Flodden, and indeed was almost ready to set the son of Andrew Wood, the second Laird out, Sir Andrew Wood resigned bis lands of Largo. He was educated for the church, into his hands, and received a new charter, and took his degree of M. A. in St Leonard's dated 21st August 1513, granting to him and College, St Andrews, in 1536. By some he his wife "the lands, cotelands, and brew- has been stylerl vicar of Largo, but for this lands of Largo ; the lands of Fawfield and there does not apiiear to be any foundation. Frostleyis in the barony of Hires, and the He attached himself to the service of the lands called Brewerslands united into a Prior of St Andrews, afterwards the Earl barony for ever ; the principal messuage to of Moray, whom he accompanied to France be the 'hall walUs of Largo.'" And the on the occasion of the marriage of Queen charter recites anew the good service done Mary to the Dauphin in 1558. He joined by the said Andrew in keeping the castle of the Reformers, and at the first General Dunbar against theEnglish.andthebuildings Assembly in December 1560, his name and other good deeds done by him. Afterthe occurs among those at St Andrews who defe.at at Flodden Sir Andrew Wood was were considered qualified for *' ministering sent to France to bring the Duke of Albany and teaching." In 1553 he has a charter to to Scotland, where he arrived on the 19th the lands of Mylndownie, in the county of of May 151.5, to assume the Regency during Dumbarton, along with the right of advoca- the minority of James V. In 1526 the tion to the chaplaincy of the chapel of the battle of Linlithgow Bridge occurred, which Virgin Mary, beneath the parish church of resulted from an attempt on the part of the Dumbarton, purchased from James Nobill,

Earl of Lennox to rescue the young King of Ardarden. Probably Mylnedownie is a. from the domination of the Douglases. Sir mistake in the copy of the charter for Tully- Andrew was sent specially to protect davie. John Wood was nominated an ex- Lennox, hut he arrived only in time to traordinary Lord of Session in 1562, by the the behold unhappy Earl expiring under the title of Tullydavie ; but in consequence of of sword Sir James Hamilton after quarter I his participation in Moray's enterprise in had been asked and given. Sir Anrlrew, 1565, he was deprived of his seat on the [ now an aged man, appears soon after this to bench, and warded in the Castle of I l3um- have retired from pubHc life, and to have barton. In 1566, after Moray's I return from his spent remaining days in his Castle of exile, he was restored to the office ; but Largo, where he kept up his old seafaring there being no vacancy, he held it tempor- 1 habits by cutting a canal from his house to arily during the absence of the commendator Parish Church, the along which he was 1 of Kilwinning, having the promise of the rowed in state every Sunday in an eight- ' first vacancy. In 1564 he received from oared barge. The traces of the canal are 1 the the lands of Easter Byn, still to be seen, and the tree to which the and in the charter he is designed " ditecto j barge used to be moored perished only familiari servitori." Soon after he sold to within the last few years. Sir Andrew his nephew James the lands of Grange, lived to a good old age. He is described by which he had purchased from his brother. Mr Tytler as " a brave warrior and skilful In 1566 we find him bearer of a letter from naval conmiander, an able financialist, inti- the Regent Moray to Cecil ; in 1567 his mately acquainted with the management of name appears at the articles resolved on by commercial transactions, and a stalwart the General Assembly. In 1568 he made feudal baron, who, without abating anything more than one journey to England upon the of his pride and his prerogative, refused not Regent's business, during one of which the to adopt, in the management of his estates, very remarkable letter was addressed to some of those improvements whose good him by John Knox, which Calderwood has efiects he had observed in his travels over recorded in his history (Vol. II., p. 427.) various parts of the continent." He is said On the 21st May (the battle of Langsida to have died in 1521, and was buried in the had been fought on the 13th, and Queen 1 1

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Mary hid flul to EivKnil) ht is in Loiulon hi e th it of all the other act 11 s in these times, and iftei iBturnmg to Scotland, he is ir hi en Me we lthiou.,h th hstuibm, me hum London iciin on the 2l)th August On thi if iit\ spilt s is 1 IhiteM.i itti U> itw 25th he wutes trom BlivmcU to Llr Ui 111] s ilk t estmiit it e 1. etU With and Cecil On the dth of S(.|)tt;ml i- "\1 n ht hisni t 1 iiv 1 IS I el t liihcity, mEdmhiir^h, wheie the trea uui fiunislit i il I" 1 M h 1 . . t I I I I im 1.1 itioifa him with ' fyiie hUtk velvet 1 I! I u 1 ll t tl satin £01 1 dress The Se ttish ( 1 11 IJ sioners, of nhim the Ke^ent \s is n « uf into Ennlmd on the 27th 1 f S t u I 1 Wood | was in L udon on the _4th I tl it

month, and ippeais itt i« 11 Is t I ue il

paired to York, wheu the e nt 1 ne s

between the Ln^hsh in I St teli (_ iiimiis

sioneis were held J >hn \\ 1 hew 1111

the pioofi asjimst Queen M 11 \ 111 1 it the 1< confereuee he s a beside the ill 1 1 ft! 1 i\

with the i>\per contximn^ the leeu iti 11

concealed foi seciuity m his losiin f i

Moiiy w IS determined that it sli ul 1 u t he ir hieed till he had assuinKe tl it

iude,lneut wcul 1 Ije promiuiee 1 hj the lish (^ueen teeil t Id him th it he ample as<^iirxnee ilieady " Where," said he, "is join accusation'" "It is here," said Wo id, lucking it from 1 his bosom , "anil here it must lemim till we bee the Queens handw lite" Tut isles, ke

Bishop of Orknej snatche 1 th j i) 1 fi

him, and sprung with it ti tl til 1

sued by Woeid, iiid, ana 1 th ill i| |

laughter of the English C inuii i iiei 1

it before them He fell mt li 1 i it

Eughbh Court al ni, with h 11 t 1 «

the mtngutb of the 1 ittei w ith IS it II w discoveied The lie^ent M 1 ij leti ii to Scotland on the 2d of Febiuary lj( i, m t without being exposed to some dinger, fei 200 Liddesdalemen, employed by the CJueen faction, lay m wait for him between Mi 1 peth and Berwick In the month of M irel following, Wood was again sent to Lou Ion

In the Assembly, which sat in Jul> f same yeai. Mi John Wood wis emi 1 jed by the Eail a-s his organ of communic ition on several matters of interest w hie h piss 1 between them on the 22il i f Jiuu ivy 1^)70

The Regent set out fiom Stirhu, t > , 1 Edinburgh, and Wood wis sent by the Countesb of Moiay to wirn hiin t> i\ id the town of Linlithgow Ntveithele s he held on his purpose, and so met h I ith being shot by Hamilton, of B tliw llh u li as he passed along the street A\ III not long survive his master, foi jn th I th of Apid he was slam by a party of leviot dale men, Arthur Forbes, of Kires, and hit, son Arthui, being the chief abettois of the deed John Forbes, the eldest son of the Laird of Eires, appeals to have been slam at the same time , and m Septembei w e lin 1 his father denounced as a rebel t n the murder of Wood Theie is m eMsteiiee i letter, of date 2()th Maioh 1570 wiitteii I ) Dame Anni Keith, widow ef the Recent and eutiusted to the eaie of J iliu Wood is bearei, to be conveyed to the Eail of Moi ton. The chaiacter of Mi John Wood has, No LSU woo FIFESHIHE BIOGRAPHY. WOO of one of the which Wood was infeft in 1636. Another old, and went up in the suite would in 1057 be seventy, and sum of 15,000 merks was advanced in 1048 noblemen, he shows that he to the , who was forfeited seventy-four in 1661. This grandson of the third laird, by Cromwell in 1654. It was then provided could not be the he then by an Order in Council that the Earl's credi- who was born c. 1559. Was the third laird ? tors should be satisfied within two years grandson of the father of This is just within the limits which the either in money or land ; and a commission father, Thomas, was issued to certain persons, among whom dates prescribe, for his might be born about 1566. But the inscrip- were Forbes of Rii-es ; Gourlay of Kincrait? ; tion which he caused to be placed on his John Preston of Aii-drie ; and Lindsay Sir ' was, ' Sir Andrew Wood, of Womiiston, to value the estates of the tombstone in 1657 son, Thomas, lieshere, Earl of Crawford, and make legal as^iign- of Largo, hisyoungest Logan, and ments. In consequence Mr Wood in 1056 buried with his wife, Margaret Now, in the received the estate of Orkie, in satisfaction their son, John Wood, Esq." Wood, the father of the third of his debt with 72U0 merks of interest. In will of Andrew be the order that he might avail himself of the laird, Robert is distinctly stated to son, and besides, he Order in Council as a person "capable of name of his youngest properly designated either as the benefit of the ordinance of pardon and could not be or "of Largo," seeiilg grace, " he was obliged to procure certificates "Sir Andrew" as neither knight nor baronet, and of his having resided peaceably in Scotland that he was heir-apparent wTien he died. But, for ten years previous to 1 654. Accordingly only most likely to be he proved that he had resided one year w ith after all, the supposition .John was grandson of Scotstarvit, one year with St Monance, one true is, that Wood laird, who was married to his year at Cockpen, five and a-halt years m the second Thomas might quite Mr Robert Preston's house in luzefear, first wife in 1528. seconrl wife, in Torryburn, one and a-half years m Lord well be bom, perhaps, of his in 1.587. And this second Colville's, at Cromie, and half a year at 1555, and John laird is often designated " Sir Andrew," Longshaw House, in .all ten and a-halt years. far as we have noticed, in This would make his residence in Scotland though not, so royal charter. On the restoration of to have commenced not later than the first any IL, Wood instantly repaired half of 1644. The tradition current in tl: Ch.arles Mr to London, where he executed a codicil to locality is, that on his return he landed i his will in December 1660, and died in Feb- Elie, whence he sent a message to his kins- ruary 1661. Wealthy as he was, he appears man at Grange desiring him to give him a to have died in very straitened circumstances meeting. Tliis is Ukely enough, for long accident of having spent during his before that time Largo had been sold, and by the all the money he had by him. A the heir of the house was then a merchant illness Laird of bill of exchange for £50 was sent from Scot- in Perth. It ' is added that the act of en- Grange hnagined that the purpose of the land for his use, and while in the it, he became senseless and soon application was to )>rocure pecuniary assist- dorsing expired. The bill, therefore, ance. And this, also, is not improbable, afterwards be negotiated ; and the report that for though John Wood coidd not but have could not extreme poverty, not leaving been known as a m.an of wealth, yet the he had died in to bury him, having reached times were not sutli as to permit any one to wherewithall Lauderdale's ears, he applied to the calculate on the i,r..sprrity "f a courtier. Lord funer.al, at 1655 Mr \V„>,a fiiinished for himself King, and received £10 for his About were much :iu.l s...>n afterwards whic"h his friends in London a house in Edinbiugli ; and took measures to have it paid he formed the plan of rebuilding the wall of ashamed, advancing themselves what was neces- Largo Church-yard in which liis ancestors b.ack, meantime. Mr Wood, in his were buried. This work, which cost him sary in the will, directed th.at his body should be em- fifty pounds, was accomplished in the sum- balmed .and buried in the vault which he mer of 1657, and he ordered a stone to be had pi-ep.ared in Largo church. Accord- fixed on it with an inscription, bearing th.at ingly, the corpse was put on board John he had caused it to be built on his return White's ship, on the 11th of March, and from his travels after an absence of 55 years. in Elie on the 20th of March 1661. If he intended that these 55 years were landed unexplained reason, although to be reckoned as terminating in 1644 From some prep.arations had sever.al times been m.ade, when he first returneil to Scotland, and the funeral did not take place till the 22d if he was fifteen years old when he left of July, during all which time the body lay his native land, then he must have been church. Wood left behind him seventy years of age in li;i4. and eighty- in Elie Mr several drafts of liis will, by one of which, seven, v>r nearit, when he ilieiK \\'lnrli is the .liaw n in KiriS, he gifted certain m(mies less likely, as he hail just lief ore unilert.ikeii up cousin John Wood, son of James a journey to London. It is more lUi.l'alile t" hi^ Grange, and of Elizabeth Nisbet. that he meant to count the tifty-five years Wood, of time under seven backward from the ereetion of the stone. This chUd was at that age, and hail, therefore, been born And the summer of ir,57 is hi the fifty-fifth years of Scotland, and probably year from the journey of James VI. to take after hS return to after him. By the will which he the crown of England, which was m April named in 1G60 he left to his cousin John, 1003. If John Wood was then fifteen years executed 490 riFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. AVOO i'l'JOO; to Janet Pdrterfiehl, spouse of he took his degree. He married in 1811 James Makgill, minister of Largo, £240 Mary daughter of Alexander ; Wood, to Jean Aunaud, spouse of Robert merchant in Elio (Wood, Family of), and

Traill, minister in Kilinburgh, £100 ; to began his medical practice in IJundee, Helen Annaud, "spouse of Mr Hutchinson which he soon after left for Cupar in Fife, minister in Edinburgb, £100 : to Helen an.l finally settle.l in Edinburgh, in 1822. Hunter, spouse of Robert HoneynMii. I'artle fn.n, ilMiralth. i,nt still nn.re from minister at Newburn, £100; tc C.itli.i in- tli-Mie-iiihri l.-,i,v .-f Ills .lls|„i„ition, he

Wood, spouse of Mr William \\'eiii\ss, le;vel- t.iok tlir 1 r. il„in,illt pKn.' in public

EXii Gs 8d ; to Andrew Wood, residentj.e- life to \\liieh bis talents an.l liii;li character side Larffo Kirk, £66 13s 4d ; and by a entitled him. But he was well known and coilicil executed at London, to his cousin greatly respected and beloved by a wide Andrew Wood shillings, debarring him circle of patients and friends, who could from preventing his corpse being removed always rely on his heartfelt syinjiathy and into Scotland. Before his death, he bail also spent 800 merks in building a school- Vm;ii"i;, ininister of house and schoolmaster's house at Drumel- drie, and he left by will 500 nierl;s for com- pletiqfe this work. J By a dec-l of ,-Mf;f; ri-

' tion he lef t the lands of Oihi' i" ' ' ;s for tl school

was not lualt during his I'l ;m , : i 1 ; pspvidingThe salary of a seliooImastiT anii.e of Wood, either. lu tlie f.itli.'v's m- in.uher's .-ide, should be maintained, eaell bavire^- a ehamber to cutors on the sul)jeet., tlie hos]iital was com- menced in 1005 and completed within two taininff fourteen roc.iii^, eaeli with a bed, a eloset, an;"< a ln,,iu. 'I'lie e.i.-^t (if the whole t.i-rthei'. Willi tlie eavilin walls, the bridge at the riitiMiie.', iiiel the ',;i niriicr's house, aui.uinted tn tl-lTi;. In tie- year 1830, the old house liai ing somew hat fallen intodecay, the present elei^ant and ornaniental building in the Elizaljethan style, was erected from designs furnished by Jlr James Leslie. It

erecteil fur tl allowance to each inmate is £15. W0<1D, .Ta.mi s. j\l.r>., l!l. Royal Circus, T'.diiiliinvh, l.'iie; one of the leading

I. '.'. .i,\.i i)~ ' 1 ' . thciugh for the last

i II \ ; , I, . 1 -i d from the active

I. was the fiither of til. l;. . > !. EUe, and of Dr

' - ' Alexaii ! . :, 'irL,di, and has alsr. left one. .. tM-. He was bom

- ' - atElsiiMi- , \ 1. (lier being Wtdter Wood, an l.iii:' .r.ii nu-ichaut, wlio had temporarily settled tiiere. His grandfather w.as Thomas Wood, who farmed the land on which a great part of the New Town of Edinburgh is now built, and was the youngest son of Alexamler \A ood, merchant in Edinburgh, who ninni.-.l the dau-hter and heiress of Jasper. lolmst.in .if Warriston and Cun-iehill. I>r James Won.l was edu- cated at the University of Edinburgh, where woo FIFESHIRE BIOGRAPHY. WOO same office, and in December 18C0 he was M.D., Austruther, w.is born at St Amh'ew's elected for the third time, an unexam|ile

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