CLASON

Rev. Patrick ( youngest child of Rev. Robert Clason, minister of Logie near Stirling ). b. Manse of Dalziel on the Clyde 13 Oct. 1789; ed. at college of Glasgow; D.D. Glasgow, March 1836; licensed to preach the gospel 1811; minister of Carmunock near Glasgow 1815, of St. Cuthbert’s Chapel of Ease (now Buccleuch ch.), Edin. 16 April 1824; joint clerk of the free church general a embly 18 May 1843 to death; moderator of general a embly 1848 and 1864. d. 22 George sq. Edin. 30 July 1868. J. A. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 161–4, portrait ; Crombie’s Modern A then i ans (1882) 17–19, portrait .