Memorials of the Clan Shaw

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Scotland as having been for generations connected with Coylton
and Ayr. They intermarried with the Dalrymples of Langlands ;
and hence the notice of them in that volume.
Their ancestor, the Rev. George Shaw, was Minister of Logie
in Stirlingshire at the Revolution in 1688, but declined to change
Ms creed and conform to Presbyterianism. He kept possession of
his charge, for sometime after Presbyterianism was established.
At page 86 of the volume last above quoted, we are told that " it
appears from the Records of the Kirk Session, that they took pro-
ceedings to remove George, in December of that year ; and there is
an entry on 5th August, 1691, requiring him to return to them,
" the utensils," meaning no doubt " the Communion Cups." Full
details as to this family since their connection with the south of
Scotland, are given in the said volume. One of them, the Rev. Dr
David Shaw, was 60 years minister of Coylton — his father having
been 52 years minister of Edenkillie in Morayshire. The former
died in 1810, the latter in 1754. Dr Andrew Shaw, brother of
Dr David of Coylton, was one of the Professors in St. Andrews
when that city was visited by Dr Johnson. Boswell records that
Johnson said of the Professor — "I took much to Shaw," (p. 95).
He had a son, Andrew, who was minister of Craigie in Ayrshire,
and was one of the Shaws alluded to by Burns in the " Twa
Herds."
Dr Shaw of Coylton's eldest son, Charles, was clerk to the Jus-
tices of the Peace for Ayr. He died in 1827. One of his sons is
Patrick Shaw, Esq., who was for a long period Sheriff of Chancery
in Scotland. One of his daughters, Barbara, was the wife of the
late Professor George Joseph Bell, Edinburgh; and the other,
Marion, was married to Sir Charles Bell, Professor of Surgery in
the University of Edinburgh. Miss Bell, daughter of Professor
George Joseph Bell, has in her possession a valuable collection of
MSS. and contemporary printed documents relating to the Rising
of 1745.
great-granddaughter of the Historian) used to be spoken of as "cousins," by the
Shaws of Ayr, -with whom they enterchanged frequent visits, (p. 88, Dalrymples
cf langlands).