Dunlop, Alexander Murray, and Welsh, David, c 1843-1847

From a typed note pasted on the page: "Dunlop, Alexander Colquhoun-Stirling-Murray- (1798-1870), church lawyer and politician; earnestly supported the 'non-intrusion' party in the church, which he professionally defended on all occasions; M.P., Greenock, 1852-58; carried bill abolishing Gretna Green marriages; attacked government of Lord Palmerston, 1861, for tampering with the despatches of Sir Alexander Burnes, enovy at the Afghan court in 1839; published a treatise on the law of Scotland relating to the poor, 1825, another on the law of patronage, 1833, and a third on parochial law. [xvi. 204]". From a second typed note pasted on the page: "Welsh, David (1793-1845), Scottish divine; educated at Edinburgh; minister of Crossmichael, 1821, and in Glasgow, 1837; hon. D.D Glasgow, 1831; church history professor, Edinburgh University, 1831-43, and in Free Church College, Edinburgh, 1844-5; published sermons, and edited Thomas Brown's 'Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, 1834. [lx. 237]".