[1] He moved from Montrose Chapel of Ease to Lady Glenorchy's Church in Edinburgh in December 1831.

He worked alongside the elderly Rev Thomas Snell Jones.

[2] His senior, James Bonar WS, was at this time organising the physical relocation of the church due to the known coming of Waverley Railway Station.

[3] In 1841, he left Edinburgh for Canada where he was appointed the first Principal of Queen's College, Kingston.

Due to issues arising from the Disruption of 1843 in Scotland, funding dried up.