a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at Glasgow University in 1619; was licensed. to preach in 1625; became assistant minister at Leswalt in 1631; was presented to the living at Kilmaurs in 1638; continued in 1650; went to Ireland; was minister at Ballykelly, from which he was obliged to remove; and had assistance in money from the kirk session at Torphichen in 1659, and charity in 1662; He died in 1697, aged about ninety years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:178.