James Murison (moderator)

Studying divinity at Kings College, Aberdeen he graduated MA in April 1721.

After a long wait for a patron (then essential in the Scottish church), he was proposed as minister of Edzell and Newdosk in June 1729 and accepted and ordained on 17 September 1729.

His position at St Andrews University was succeeded by Rev Dr James Gillespie.

[5] On 12 October 1744, he married Annabella Trent (died 1761) in Leuchars in Fife.

[2] His children included James Murison of Denbrae (c. 1740 – 1803 Mid Calder), a child from his first marriage.