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and in 1754 was preferred to tlie Tron Church. He became
Chaplain in Ordinary to the King, one of the deans of the Chapel
Eoyal, and Dean of the Order of the Thistle. He died suddenly
while attending the General Assembly on the 30th May, 1766, in
the fifty-first year of his age and twenty-first of his ministry. Dr.
Jardine projected the first Eclinlurgh Eevieiv, which was published
in July, 1755, but was discontinued in the following year. By his
marriage with a daughter of Lord Provost Drummond he became
father of Sir Henry Jardine, who is also commemorated by a
tombstone in this churchyard.
Sir Henry Jardine was born at Edinburgh on the 30th January
1766. In 1790 he passed as a Writer to the Signet, and three
years afterwards was appointed Solicitor for Taxes in Scotland.
In 1820 he became King's Eemembrancer, having for many
years held the deputy office. He was knighted in 1825. He died
on the 11th August, 1851. Sir Henry Jardine was an ingenious
antiquary and elegant scholar.
A mortuary enclosure inscribed with the single word " Eamsay "
denotes the burial-place of James Eamsay, Bishop of Eoss. Son of
Principal Eamsay of Glasgow College ; he was successively minister
of Kirkintulloeh and Linlithgow. In 1670 he was appointed Dean
of Glasgow ; and in the following year Bishop of Dunblane. In
1673 he was translated to the Bishopric of Eoss. He died at
Edinburgh, 22nd October, 1696.
A tombstone commemorates Charles Alston, M.D., Professor of
Botany. This eminent physician was born in 1683 ; he studied at
the University of Glasgow and afterwards at Leyden. In 1738 he
was appointed to the Chair of Botany and Materia Medica in the
University of Edinburgh. By his numerous medical and other
scientific works he laid the foundation of that fame which Edin-
burgh has since enjoyed as a school of medicine. He died on
the 22nd November, 1760.
Dr. John Walker, Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh, is
interred in the churchyard. Son of the Eector of the Canongate
Grammar School, he studied at the Universitv of Edinburgh, and