KIDS TONE

William (son of rev. William Kids tone, sece ion minister, Stowe, co. Edinburgh). b. Stowe 9 Sep. 1768; ed. at Stirling gram. sch. and Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister of East Campbell st. chapel, Glasgow 18 Oct. 1791 to 1838; the first to establish Bible cla es; chief originator of Friendly Clerical Soc. in Glasgow 1793; president Glasgow mi ionary soc.; clerk of the synod in presbytery of Glasgow 1795–1836; an original member of Evangelical Alliance; D.D. d. Ibroxholm, Glasgow 23 Oct. 1852. J. Kerr and J. Mac far lane’s Christian Old age, the life of W. Kids tone (1852); J. Smith’s Our Scottish clergy (1848) 369–77.