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434 B I 0 G R AP H I CA L S K E T C HE S. 20th May 1811, Mary Anne, only daughter of John Charles Dunn, Esq., who realised a fortune in India, by whom he had several sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Francis William, commonly called ‘‘ Master of Grant,” was some time member of Parliament for the county of Inverness, and died unmarried in 1840.’ The Colonel generally resided at Cullen-House, Banffshire, where he was very much respected, and greatly beloved by his clan. He managed the very extensive family estates in: Inverness, Banff, and Morayshires, and was particularly esteemed as a liberal and indulgent landlord. NO. CCCXIX. REV. DAVID DICKSON, D.D., ONE OF THE DIINISTERS OF ST. CUTHBERT, OR WEST KIRK, EDINBURGH. DE DAVID DICKSON, eldest son of the Rev. David Dickson, of New North Church, Edinburgh, was born, 23d February 1780, at the manse of Libberton, Lanarkshire, of which parish his father was then minister. He received his elementary, literary, and classical education under the very excellent tuition of Mr. Mitchell, the parochial schoolmaster of Bothkennar, Stirlingshire, whither Mr. Dickson had by that time removed. He entered the University of Edinburgh in session 1793-4 ; and prosecuted his studies there till their completion in 1801, on the 8th December of which year he was licensed by the Presbytery of Edinburgh. In January 1802 Mr. Dickson received an unanimous call to be minister of the then Chapel of Ease (now High Church), Kilmarnock, and was ordained to the sacred office there on the 10th March following. Here he remained little more than a year, having, on the death of the Rev. William Paul, been presented by the Crown, on application by a majority of the heritors, to the vacancy in the collegiate charge of the parish of St. Cuthbert, or West Kirk, Edinburgh. He was admitted to it on the 16th May 1803, and during the long period which intervened, it is only due to the character of Dr. Dickson to say, that he discharged the pastoral duties of his office with a fidelity that justly endeared him to the congregation. Indeed, the largeness of the flock among whom he laboured, and the uniform affection with which not they only, but the parishioners in general, regarded him, after more than thirty-five years’ service, are sufficient testimonies of his worth. Among other instances of his zeal for the interests of religion in the parish, Colonel Grant succeeded his brother aa 6th Earl of Seafield in 1840. After the death of his first wife he married Louisa-Emma, daughter of the late Robert George Maunsell, Esq. of Limerick He was Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Inverness, and died 30th July 1853.
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