Pitcairn, Thomas, c 1843-1847

From a typed note pasted on the page: "Pitcairn, Thomas, D.D. Born at Edinburgh, 1800. Studied at the University, Edinburgh. After passing through the University curriculum, Mr. Pitcairn gave himself for a time to business, then studied at the Divinity Hall, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1833, assistant and successor to Dr. Grierson, at Cockpen. Married, 1836, Ann H. Trotter. In 1837 Mr. Pitcairn was chosen clerk of the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale. Unanimously elected clerk of the Convocation in November 1842. Signed the Act of Separation and Deed of Demission. He was appointed, along with Dr. Clason of Edinburgh, to be clerk of the Free Church General Assembly. In the year of the Disruption a church was built for him and his congregation at Bonyrigg, in the parish of Cockpen. Died, 1854. The Commission of Assembly which met after his death expressed the conviction 'that, in no small measure, the Free Church has been indebted to him for much of what is good in the tone and character of the proceedings of her supreme court, and in the general conduct of her ecclesisastical affairs."