Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerino and 5th Lord Cupar was a Scottish nobleman and Jacobite, or supporter of the claim of the exiled House of Stuart to the British throne.
Alexander Monro (1648–1698) was the Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1685 to 1690.
William Wishart (secundus) (1691/92–1753) was a Scottish clergyman who served as the Principal of Edinburgh University from 1736 to 1753. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly for the Church of Scotland in 1745.
William Wishart (1660–1729) was a Church of Scotland minister and the Principal of Edinburgh University from 1716 to 1728. He is not to be confused with his son William Wishart (secundus), who was subsequently the Principal of Edinburgh University from 1736 to 1754.
Cramond Kirk is a church situated in the middle area Cramond parish, in the north west of Edinburgh, Scotland. Built on the site of an old Roman fort, parts of the Cramond Kirk building date back to the fourteenth century and the church tower is considered to be the oldest part.
Andrew Stewart was a 16th-century Scottish noble and cleric. He was a legitimate son of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl and Eleanor Sinclair, daughter of William Sinclair, Earl of Orkney. His paternal grandmother was Joan Beaufort, former queen-consort of Scotland. Andrew chose an ecclesiastical career, held a canonry in Dunkeld Cathedral and was rector of Blair parish church, a church under the control of the earls of Atholl.
Robert Crichton was a 16th-century Scottish Catholic cleric.
William Lindsay of Dowhill (1638–1679) was a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian minister, serving in Perth, Scotland. He is most notable for holding the position of Bishop of Dunkeld between 1677 and his death in 1679.
Andrew Bruce (c.1630–1699) was a 17th-century Scottish churchman who served as both Protestant Bishop of Dunkeld and Protestant Bishop of Orkney.
Bishop David Mitchel, Mitchell or Mitchelson (c.1591–1663) was a Scottish clergyman.
Arthur Rose was a Scottish minister, Archbishop of St Andrews, and, informally, the first Episcopal Primate of Scotland, after the fall of the Restoration Episcopate in 1689.
John Guthrie was a Scottish prelate active in the first half of the 17th century who became Bishop of Moray.
Thomas Sydserf(f), or St. Serf, (1581 – 1663) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland who served as Protestant Bishop first of Brechin, then Galloway and finally Orkney.
South Leith Parish Church, originally the Kirk of Our Lady, St Mary, is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. It is the principal church and congregation in Leith, in Edinburgh. Its kirkyard is the burial place for John Home and John Pew, the man from whom the author Robert Louis Stevenson reputedly derived the character of Blind Pew in the novel Treasure Island. The church has been repaired, used as an ammunition store and reconstructed but still retains the basic layout of the nave of the old church.
North Leith Parish Church was a congregation of the Church of Scotland, within the Presbytery of Edinburgh. It served part of Leith, formerly an independent burgh and since 1920 a part of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland.
James Balfour of Pilrig JP was a Scottish advocate and philosopher.
Thomas Wilkie (1645-1711) was a Scottish minister who was elected Moderator of the Church of Scotland twice: once in 1701 and once in 1704. He was the minister at the Kirk of the Canongate.
George Hamilton of Cairns (1635–1712) was a Church of Scotland minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1699.
David Blair (1637–1710) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland who served as minister of St Giles Cathedral and was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1700.
