MACKELVIE

William . b. Edinburgh 7 March 1800; apprentice to a draper at Leith; studied at univ. of Edinb. from Nov. 1809, then at Glasgow; licensed to preach by presbytery of Stirling and Falkirk 7 March 1827; minister of Balgedie, Kinro -shire 16 April 1829 to death; one of earliest promoters of union between sece ion and relief churches which took place 13 May 1847; moderator of synod of 1856; D.D. Hamilton, Ohio; originated the Dick club 1835; author of Lochleven and other poems by Michael Bruce, with a life of the author 1837; Annals and statistics of the united presbyterian church. The biographical notices by W. Mackelvie 1873. d. Balgedie 10 Dec. 1863. Sermons by Wm. Mackelvie (1875), memoir by J. Mac far lane pp. 7–64, portrait .