GILLAN

Rev. Robert ( son of Robert Gillan, minister at Hawick, Roxburgh, d. 7 May 1824 ). b. Hawick 1800; educ. Edin. univ.; Presbyterian minister at Stamfordham, North umber land 1830, at South Shields 1833, at Holy town, Lan arks hire 1837, at Wishaw 1842, at Abbot shall, Fifes hire 1843, at St. John’s, Glasgow 1847 and at Inch inn an, Renfrewshire 1861 to death; D.D. of Glasgow univ. 1853; lecturer on pastoral theology at the Scottish universities; publicly entertained at Glasgow and presented with his portrait 11 Oct. 1870; moderator of general a embly 1873; author of The Decalogue, a series of discourses 1856. d. Inch inn an manse 1 Nov. 1879. J. Smith’s Our Scottish Clergy (1848) 182–8; H. Scott’s Fasti ii, pt. 1, p. 269 .