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106 GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF JOHN KNOX.
issue — John C. Breckenridge, Vice-President of the Con-
federate States. 1
Susan, youngest daughter of Dr Stanhope Smith and Anne
Witherspoon, married Derick Solomons, M.D., with issue, two
daughters, Caroline and another, who married Woodhall.
Susan Witherspoon, only daughter of Mr James Wither-
spoon, minister of Yester, by his wife Anne Walker, became
second wife of Mr James French, one of the masters of the
High School of Edinburgh, a native of Tweedsmuir, in Tweed-
dale. Mr James French was parochial schoolmaster first of
Temple, afterwards of Yester. On the 14th February 1759,
he was elected one of the masters of the High School of
Edinburgh ; he resigned that office in June 1786, when he
received, in acknowledgment of his services, a life pension in
excess of his salary. He died at Carmunnock, Lanarkshire,
on the 9th March 1789, at the age of seventy-four. Of the
marriage of Mr James French and Susan Witherspoon were
born a son, James, and a daughter, Anne. James French
was, when a college student, tutor to Sir Walter Scott.
Licensed to preach in 1785, he was in the following year
ordained minister of Carmunnock, Lanarkshire. In 1791 he
was translated to East Kilbride in the same county. He died
in 1835, aged seventy-four. 2
Anne French married Mr James Todd of New York, by
whom she had a son, Alexander, who died young ; also three
daughters — Susan, Mary, and Isabella. Susan married Gabriel
Walker of Fifeshire; Mary married Squire of New York,
with issue; Isabella married John Bain of Morriston, in the
county of Lanark ; she died 6th October 1857, leaving issue.
1 Fasti Eccl. Scot., ii. 58, 204.
2 History of the High School of Edinhurgh, by William Steven, D.D.,
Edinb. 1849, 12mo, p. 135, app. 92.