DUNDEE, a parish and sea-port and burgh (royal), in the county of Forfar; containing,
with part of the village of Lochee, 6'2,79-l inhabitants, of whom 60,553 are
within the burgh, 14 miles from Forfar, and ? (N. by E.) from Edinburgh. This place appears
to have derived its name, in ancient records written Don Mary Donum Dei,
from the erection of the church in the
twelfth century by David, Earl of Huntingdon, brother
of King William the Lion, on his landing here in
safety after a severe storm, on his return from the
Holy Land, whither, with 500 of his countrymen, he had
accompanied Richard Ccsur de Lion, King of England,
in his third crusade. In fulfilment of his vow to grant
to him the first ground on which he should land on his
return, the Scottish monarch gave his brother the site
now occupied by Dundee; and the earl, in gratitude for
his preservation from shipwreck, erected a spacious
church, around which subsequently arose the present
town. There seems to have been a castle or fortress on
the summit of a rock rising precipitously from the river,
the origin of which is altogether unknown, and which,
after the erection of the church, became a royal residence;
but from the shelter it afforded to the enemy in
the wars with England during the reign of Edward I.,
it was ultimately demolished by the Scots. In the war
consequent on the disputed succession to the Scottish
throne, the town was twice taken by the army of Edward
I., by whom it was plundered and burnt; and in 1385 it
was again nearly reduced to ashes by the English forces
under the Duke of Lancaster. It suffered a similar devastation
from the English army commanded by the
protector, Somerset, in an attempt to compel the regency
of Scotland to negotiate a contract of marriage
between the infant princess Mary, afterwards Queen of
Scots, and the son of Henry VIII., Edward VI. of England.
At the time of the Reformation, the inhabitants,
who were zealous for the cause, proceeded to Edinburgh
to assist in besieging the French troops stationed in
Leith; but they were repulsed with considerable loss,
and many of them were killed in endeavouring to effect
their retreat into Edinburgh.
In 1645, the Marquess of Montrose, at the head of
150 cavalry and 600 infantry, sent a summons to the
town to surrender, and on the imprisonment of his messenger
by the inhabitants, attacked it simultaneously in
three different quarters, and after plundering and setting
fire to it on the east and north sides, abandoned the
people to military execution. In 1651, after the battle
of Worcester, the town was besieged by General Monk,
to whom it was compelled to yield, though not without
a valiant resistance. The governor, Lumsden, retired
with part of the garrison to the tower of the church,
which for some time he maintained to the annoyance of
the enemy; but being at length obliged to submit, he
was inhumanly murdered in the churchyard, together
with all his companions, and his head placed on a spike
on the battlements of the tower. On this occasion, the
town was plundered of every thing of value, and sixty
ships in the harbour were laden with the spoils, valued at
£200,000 sterling, and sent off to England; but in passing
the bar near the mouth of the river, every vessel was
lost. The inhabitants were slaughtered without regard
either to age or sex; and in the general carnage, which
continued for three days, it is estimated that more than
one-sixth of the inhabitants were put to death. In
1669, the town was so greatly reduced that an act of
parliament was passed, recommending it to the benevolent
consideration of the whole kingdom; and contributions
were made for its assistance by all the principal
burghs in the country. The various calamities which
the town had experienced were, moreover, subsequently
aggravated by a dearth that lasted for seven years; and
it was not till after the rebellion in 1745 that it began to
recover its former importance, since which time few
events of historical interest have taken place. In 1841,
three of the churches were destroyed by an accidental
fire which originated from a stove in the passage between
the South and the Steeple churches, on the morning of
the 3rd of January. The flames extended to the cathedral
and the Cross church, but the firemen prevented
their communication to the Steeple church, which was
saved: the other three, however, about half-past six
o'clock, were one mass of fire; the cathedral was completely
destroyed, and the South and Cross churches
were almost reduced to ruins. In 1844, Her Majesty
Queen Victoria, attended by Prince Albert, arrived in
the bay of Dundee on Wednesday, the 11th of September,
on a visit to Lord Glenlyon, and landed under a
triumphal arch erected on the occasion. After remaining
a short time in the town, the royal visiters proceeded
to Blair-Atholl, where they remained till Tuesday, the
1st of October, when they returned to Dundee, and emarked
for London.
The TOWN is advantageously situated on the north
bank of the Tay, and consists of numerous streets, several
of which retain the names of the ancient gates in the
old walls, which have been long since removed. The
principal street, called High-street, in which is the market-
place, is about 1'20 yards in length, and 100 feet
wide; the houses arc neatly built of stone, and four
stories in height. To the east of this is the Seagate,
one of the oldest streets of the town, a long narrow
thoroughfare leading to the road to Broughty-Ferry.
The Murraygate, containing many well-built houses, and
the Cowgate, adjoining, are connected with the Seagate
by numerous cross streets or lanes. King-street, of
modern erection, contains handsome houses, and the
Nethergate, in the most improved part of the town, is a
spacious street of considerable length, containing many
elegant detached houses. Castle-street, leading from the
south-east angle of the High-street to the harbour, and
Union-street, opening a direct communication between
Craig Pier and the Nethergate, and in the formation of
which many unsightly houses have been rebuilt in an excellent
style, are each spacious and handsome. Among
the various improvements that have been effected of recent
years, is the construction of the splendid Reformstreet.
The streets are well paved, and the roads macadamized;
the town is lighted with gas, from works
established by a company, about a mile eastward of
High-street, and the inhabitants are amply supplied
with water. One of the most remarkable features of
the town is the lofty tower, 156 feet in height, at the
west end of the imposing mass of buildings comprising
the Old, South, Cross, and Steeple churches: its design
is foreign in its character, and, as has been remarked,
it is " more like the tower of a hotel de ville than of a
church". The public subscription library contains a
collection of more than 6000 volumes; there are also
district libraries connected with the several churches,
each of which has nearly 1000 volumes. A spacious and
elegant reading and news room has been opened near the
harbour, called the Exchange Coffee- Room, which is supported
by above 400 subscribers; and an artisans' reading-
room, well supplied with daily journals, has been
founded by members of the Watt Institution, and has
'200 subscribers. The Watt Institution was established
in 1896 for the delivery of lectures on scientific subjects,
and now possesses an extensive library, consisting chiefly
of works of art. A reading-room has also been provided
by Messrs. Brown, proprietors of spinning-mills, for the
use of their workmen. There is a theatre in Castle-street.
a handsome and well-arranged edifice; and card and
dancing assemblies are held in the town- hall, and other
public buildings. A horticultural society was established
in 1824, under the patronage of the neighbouring nobility
and gentry; and a florists' society has also been formed.
The old gardens of Chapelshade, in the vicinity of the
town, have been converted into a cemetery, and tastefully
laid out in walks, parterres, and shrubberies, with appropriate
embellishments; and to the north, a public
bleach-green, four acres in extent, and containing the
requisite apparatus for family washing, has been inclosed,
and planted with ornamental shrubs. An act for a better
supply of water to the town was passed in the year 184.5,
and an act for a better supply of gas in 1846.
The principal trade pursued is the linen manufacture,
which was introduced at an early period, and, till
within the last forty or fifty years, was carried on entirely
by hand, both in spinning the yarn and weaving
the cloth, to a very considerable extent for the supply of
the neighbourhood, and also for exportation. Since the
introduction of machinery and the application of steam,
however, it has increased to an amazing amount. In
1811 four spinning-mills had been erected, driven by
steam-engines of the aggregate power of sixty-one
horses, consuming 468 tons of flax annually, and producing
224,600 spindles of yarn; and the whole of the
capital invested in machinery amounted to £22,000. At
present there are more than thirty-six spinning-mills in
Dundee and the immediate neighbourhood, driven by
steam-engines of the aggregate power of 600 horses, consuming
a vast quantity of flax, and producing annually
7,500,000 spindles of yarn; and the capital invested in
machinery is about £240,000. In these mills above 3000
persons are regularly employed, of whom a large proportion
are women and children. The number of mdls for
weaving is still larger. The total number of families
employed in the different departments of the linen trade
is 7000, and the amount of wages annually paid is
£160,000. The flax is chiefly imported from Russia,
Brabant, Holland, and Prussia; and in 1846 the quantity
of flax, hemp, and kindred substances that was
landed at Dundee was about 40,000 tons. The goods
manufactured are, Osnaburghs, sheetings, sailcloth, sacking,
and banging, and various other articles, of which
large quantities are exported to the West Indies, North
and South America, and to various ports on the continent.
Nearly 800,000 pieces of cloth of various sorts
were exported in 1846. The tanning of leather, which
was formerly carried on to a very considerable extent,
has for some years been rapidly diminishing, and is now
almost extinct; but the manufacture of ropes and cordage
is in a thriving state. There are also several machinefactories,
candle-factories, and sugar-refineries.
The trade of the port consists chiefly in the exportation
of grain and agricultural produce, and the different
articles of the linen manufacture; and in the importation
of flax, hemp, lime, coal, ashes, timber, iron, tar,
whale-blubber, tallow, and other merchandise. The
number of vessels registered as belonging to the port in
1844 was 326, of the aggregate burthen of 50,901 tons;
the amount of duties paid at the custom-house was
£42 737 The number of vessels that entered inwards
from foreign ports in a late year was 307, of which
253 were British and 54 foreign; the coasting-trade is
very extensive, and it appears that in one year 1858
vessels entered inwards, and 1017 cleared outwards.
The HARBOUR, previously to the year 1815, was small,
and insufficient to accommodate the trade of the port;
but in that year, an act for its improvement and for
placing it under the management of commissioners was
obtained, and before 1833 the sum of £242,000 was expended
in the construction of two capacious wet-docks,
nearly eleven acres in extent, and commencing a third
of much more ample dimensions. A large tide-harbour
was also formed, with extensive quays, as well as a
graving-dock, capable of receiving three of the largest
class of merchant-ships, with commodious yards for
building and repairing vessels. A substantial lowwater
pier has since been erected on the Craig, the usual
landing-place from Newport in Fifeshire, between which
place and Dundee regular intercourse by steamers is
maintained. A stationary light has been placed on the
Craig pier, on the western side of the harbour, and also
on the pier at Newport; there is likewise a light exhibited
on the east pier, and another on the middle pier,
at the entrance of the docks. A grant of £8000 was
lately made by government for the erection of a new
custom-house at the north-east angle of King William's
dock; it is a handsome building in the Grecian style,
and contains also accommodation for transacting the
business of the harbour commissioners and of the exciseoffice.
Prior to 1834, the Dundee, Perth, and London
Shipping Company employed eight smacks in the London
trade, having an aggregate burthen of 991 tons; also
three vessels in the Glasgow trade, four in the Liverpool,
and four in the Perth, the tonnage of these eleven amounting
to 673. In that year, however, the company built
two powerful steamers, the Dundee and the Perth, of
300-horse power each; and subsequently added a third,
the London, of 350-horse power. Besides these steamers,
they employ four schooners in the London trade, seven
sloops in the Glasgow, four in the Leith, and three
lighters and a steam-tug in the Perth trade; and the
entire tonnage of the steamers and sailing-vessels belonging
to the company now amounts to 2686. Two
steamers, also, are employed by other parties, in the
Dundee and Leith trade. There are several joint-stock
whale-fishing companies, employing five ships, averaging
325 tons' burthen each.
The town was originally erected into a royal burgh
by charter of William the Lion, and its privileges as such
were confirmed by charter of Robert Bruce, and by one
of Charles L in 1641. In consequence of a dispute in
the election of a dean of guild, the burgh was disfranchised
in 1830, and seven members were appointed by
the court of session to manage the interests of the town;
but in 1831 the king, in answer to a petition, confirmed
an election of the magistrates and council made by the
burgesses and heritors; and in the 2nd of William IV.
an act was passed, extending the royalty of the burgh
and the jurisdiction of the magistrates. Under these
regulations, the government is vested in a provost, four
bailies, a dean of guild, a treasurer, and fourteen other
councillors, elected according to the provisions of the
general Municipal act, with the exception of the dean of
guild, who is chosen by the guild brethren. Seven of
the councillors retire from office annually. There are
nine incorporated guilds, the bakers, shoemakers, glovers,
tailors, bonnet-makers, butchers, hammermen, weavers,
and dyers; and three united trades, the masons, wrights,
and slaters. The magistrates have jurisdiction over
the whole of the extended royalty, which is coextensive
with the parliamentary boundary, and hold
courts weekly on Wednesday for the recovery of debts
to any amount, in which the bailies preside for one
month each in rotation; the more important criminal
cases are tried by the sheriff-substitute, who is resident
in the town, and those of less importance are disposed
of in the police court. The sherilf-substitute also holds
a court weekly, during the session, for the recovery of
debts not exceeding £8. 6. S.; and a court for the recovery
of small debts is held by the magistrates every
alternate week. There is a dean-of-guild court as occasion
requires, in which the clerk of the guildry acts as
assessor. Under the Police act the town is divided into
eleven wards, to each of which are appointed two general
and two resident commissioners; and there is also a
harbour police. Previously to the Reform act the burgh
was associated with Perth, Cupar of Fife, St. Andrew's,
and Forfar, in returning a member to the imperial parliament;
since that time it has elected a member of its
own, and the number of qualified voters is 2827.
The old Totvn-hall, erected in 1734, on the site of the
ancient church of St. Clement, after a design by Mr.
Adam, is a spacious and handsome structure with a
tower and spire rising to the height of 100 feet. In front
is a piazza, behind which are shops and public offices.
On the first-floor are two spacious halls, in one of which,
embellished with a portrait of Lord Panmure, the corporation
hold meetings for the transaction of public
business, and in the other the several courts of the
magistrates and sheriff are held, and the meetings of
the guildry. There are also four arched rooms for the
accommodation of the town-clerks and others connected
with the courts, and for the preservation of the public
records; and above these is the old town gaol, consisting
of five apartments, each twenty-four feet in length
and twelve feet wide, of which those in front were used
for debtors, and the others for criminals. New public
buildings, however, of very handsome construction, have
been erected by the burgh, at a considerable expense,
and containing ample accommodation for the confinement
of prisoners. Tlie Trades' Hall, situated at the
east end of the market-place, an elegant building of the
Ionic order, with a lantern and cupola rising from the
centre of the roof, was erected by the nine incorporated
trades in 1770, and contains on the first-floor a handsome
hall, fifty feet in length and twenty-five feet wide,
for holding the general meetings, and nine apartments
for the private meetings of each particular trade. The
building appropriated as an Exchange is a handsome
structure in the Grecian style, erected by a company of
subscribers, at an expense of £10,000, and having on
the ground-floor a range of offices and shops, and on the
first-floor an elegant hall, now used as a reading and
news room, to which reference has been already made.
There are various banking establishments, namely, the
Dundee, the Union, and the Eastern Banks, and four
branches of Edinburgh banks: the Forfarshire and
Perthshire Insurance Company, the Marine Insurance
Company, the Forfarshire Chamber of Commerce, and
two associations of underwriters have been also established
in the town. The markets are on Tuesday and
Friday, and Dundee being the mart of a large surrounding
district, they are numerously attended. On Tuesday,
manufactured goods and various kinds of merchandise
and provisions are exposed to sale in great profusion;
and on Friday, in addition to these, there is an abundant
supply of grain.
Facilities of communication, besides those by sea, are
afforded by excellent roads, of which the coast road to
Aberdeen passes through the town: there are turnpikeroads
to Cupar-Angus, Forfar, Brechin, and Glasgow,
and, by branch roads through Fifeshire, to Edinburgh.
The Dundee and Neictijle railway was commenced in
1S36, and completed in 1S3'2, at a cost of about £50,000.:
it is about eleven miles in length, and at Newtyle is connected
with the Scottish Midland Junction railway from
Forfar to Perth. An act was obtained in 1847 for the
improvement of the line. The Dundee and Arbroath railway
was hegaa in lS36,aLiid completed in 1840; it is about
seventeen miles in length, passes close to the shore, and
is nearly level throughout. At Arbroath it is connected
with a line to Forfar and to Aberdeen. The Dundee and
Perth railway, for which an act was obtained in 184.5, was
opened to Barnhill, not far from Perth, in May 1847, and
was subsequently completed to Prince's-street, Perth,
a distance bf above 20 miles from this town. Acts of
parliament were passed in 1848, authorizing the formation
of a junction line of the two preceding railways,
the Arbroath and the Perth, in Dundee; and enabling the
Dundee and Perth railway company to take a lease of
the Arbroath railway. The whole line, from the city of
Perth to the town of Arbroath, is now called the Dundee,
Perth, and Aberdeen Railway Junction. On the south
shore of the Firth of Tay commences the Dundee section
of the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee railway.
The PARISH is nearly six miles in length from east to
west, and varies greatly in breadth, comprising an area
of about 4200 acres, of which 254 are woodland and
plantations, 135 waste, and the remainder arable and
pasture. Its surface is diversified, rising into hills of
considerable elevation, of which the Law, and the hill of
Balgay, are the most conspicuous. To the west of the
town the soil is light and shallow, to the north and east of
richer quality, and along the bank of the Tay luxuriantly
fertile. The crops are oats, barley, wheat, turnips, and
potatoes, with the various grasses; the system of husbandry
is advanced, and the lands are in a high state of
cultivation. In general the farm-houses are of stone,
and roofed with slate; the lands are inclosed partly with
stone dykes, and partly with hedges of thorn. The only
cattle pastured are milch-cows on the several farms. The
soil is well adapted for fruit of every kind, and considerable
portions of the land near the town are laid down in
gardens, and also in nursery-grounds: the plantations
arc ash, plane, beech, a few elms, and larch and Scotch
fir, which are in a thriving state, but are rather ornamental
than profitable. In this parish the principal
substrata are sandstone, amygdaloid alternated with
trap, and red porphyry. The annual value of real property
in the parish is £118,326.
For ECCLESIASTICAL purposcs Dundee is within the
bounds of the presbytery of Dundee, synod of Angus
and Mearns. The parish was in lS.'i4 separated, by act
of the presbytery, into the districts of St. Mary, St. Paul,
the Grey Friars, St. John, St. Clement, St. David, St.
Andrew, and Chapelshade, each of which was erected
into a quoad sacra parish; and in 1836, by the same
authority, part of the districts of St. John and St. David
was formed into the additional quoad sacra parish of
St. Peter. These arrangements, however, in common
with similar arrangements in other parts of the country,
were afterwards abrogated. The parish of .SV. Mary
comprised, according to the plans just referred to, the
rural district of the parish of Dundee, and part of the
suburbs of the town: the minister's stipend is £313. 6.,
with a manse, and a glebe valued at £25 per annum;
patrons, the Town Council. The Old and South churches,
partly used by the inhabitants of St. Mary's, have since
the great fire been restored, and contain together about
2450 sittings, of which 1350 are in the latter. St. Paul's
parish, wholly within the town, comprised an extent of
about half a mile square: the stipend is £274. I7.;
patrons, the Town Council. The congregation assemble
alternately in the Old and South churches. The parish
of the Grey Friars comprised about one-eighth part of
the town and suburbs: the minister's stipend was
£2"5. 2.; patrons, the Town Council. Divine service
is performed in the Old and South churches. Connected
with the Established Church is a Gaelic chapel,
erected within the last few years, at a cost of £2400,
and containing 100 sittings: the minister has a stipend
of £110, of which £10 are granted by the Society for
Propagating Christian Knowledge, and the remainder
derived from seat-rents; patrons, the male communicants.
St. John's parish was about half a mile in
length, and of nearly equal breadth: the stipend is £2/5;
patrons, the Town Council. The church, called the
Cross church, containing about 1037 sittings, was destroyed
in 1841 by the fire, but has been restored. St.
Clement's parish was three-quarters of a mile in length,
and one-quarter of a mile in breadth: the minister's
stipend is £300; patrons, the Council. The church,
called the Steeple church, was rebuilt in 1782, and contains
1463 sittings. St. David's was about two miles in
length, and three-quarters of a mile in breadth: the
stipend is £275; patrons, the Council. The church
was built in 1800, at a cost of £2220, and has 1608
sittings. St. Andrew's was one mile and three-quarters
in length, and three-quarters of a mile in breadth: the
stipend is £180; patrons, the male communicants. The
church was built in 1774, at a cost of £3000, by subscription,
and contains 1486 sittings. An additional
church has been lately erected by subscription, at an
expense of nearly £2000, for 1 100 persons. The parish
of Chapelshade comprised nearly two square miles: the
stipend is £150, derived from seat-rents; patrons, the
male cominunicants. The church, built originally as a
Relief chapel in 1789, was united to the Established
Church in I791; it was enlarged in 1830, at an expense
of £880, and contains 1280 sittings. St. Peter's parish,
comprising a portion of the parishes of St. John and St.
David, separated by the presbytery in 1836, was about
a mile and a half in length, and one-quarter of a mile in
breadth: the minister's stipend was £220, with an
allowance of £12 for communion elements; patrons,
the male communicants. The church, containing 1 120
sittings, was erected in 1836, at a cost of £2400, of
which £250 were granted by the General Assembly, and
the remainder raised by subscription. There are places
of worsh-i' in Dundee for members of the Free Church,
the United Presbyterian Synod, the United Original
Seceders, Baptists, Baptist- Bereans, and Paedobaptist-
Bereans, Episcopalians, the Society of Friends, Glassites,
Independents, Primitive and United Methodists, Reformed
Presbyterians, Wesleyans, Roman Catholics,
Unitarians, and others.
The grammar school is under the care of two classical
masters, who have each a salary of £50, and the
fees annually produce to each about £60; it is well
conducted and numerously attended. The English
school has also two masters, one for reading and English
grammar, who has a salary of £30, and one for writing
and arithmetic, with a salary of £'20, in addition to
which each master derives about £70 from fees. A
school called the Sessional school, lately established, is
attended by about 500 children, and conducted by a
master who has a salary of £80 per annum; the building
was erected on a site given by the town council.
The Dundee Academy, for which a spacious and handsome
building has been erected in the centre of the
town, at a cost of £8000, raised chiefly by subscription,
is under the patronage of fifteen directors, of whom five
are appointed by the town council and ten by the subscribers.
This institution is endowed with £6000, bequeathed
by Messrs. Webster, of the city of London, who
were natives of the town. The course of studies is very
complete, and is superintended by two classical masters;
a master for the modern languages; one for moral philosophy,
nautical astronomy, and logic; a master for
natural philosophy, mathematics, and chemistry; one
for drawing and painting; one for English reading,
grammar, and geography, and a master for writing and
arithmetic. There are numerous other schools in the
town and neighbourhood, in which it is calculated that
about 4000 children receive instruction. The industrial
school for vagrant children was established in 1847.
Among the many charitable institutions of the town
are, the ancient Hospital, from the revenues of which
£500 are annually distributed among poor citizens; the
Royal Infirmary, established in 1798, and supported by
subscription, which receives more than thirty in-patients,
and affords medical attendance and medicines to the
poor at their own dwellings; the Royal Lunatic Asylum,
erected in 1812, and supported by subscription for the
reception of I'JO patients; the Royal Orphan Institution,
established in IS15; the Indigent-Sick Society, distributing
annually £160; the Medical and Surgical Dispensary;
the Institutions for the Lame and Blind; the
Seamen's Friend Society, dispensing yearly £1500; the
Female Society, £190; and the Clothing Society, distributing
about £40. These and various other benevolent
institutions collectively dispense, in aid of the distressed
and indigent, nearly £4000 annually; exclusively of
numerous bequests by charitable individuals for similar
purposes.
There are still some remains of the ancient palace
called Whitehall, the occasional residence of the Scottish
monarchs previously to the reign of James VI., and
subsequently of Charles II., who lodged n\ it for some
time before the battle of Worcester. The site of the
Franciscan convent founded by Devorgilla, mother of
John Baliol, and which was destroyed at the Reformation,
was granted together with the adjacent lands by
Mary, Queen of Scots, to the town for a burying-place.
In clearing some ground for the formation of a new
street in 1831, the vestiges of an ancient mint, supposed
to have been erected by Robert Bruce, were discovered;
the smelting furnace was found nearly entire. At
the western extremity of High-street is an ancient
house in which Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch and Monmouth,
was born, during the residence of her parents
here, who had been driven from the castle of Dalkeith
by the commissioners of Cromwell; it was also inhabited
by General Monk after he had reduced the town.
The castle of Dudhope, once the seat of the Scrimgeours,
hereditary constables of Dundee, has been converted
into barracks for infantry. There are no remains of the
castle of Dundee, which occupied the summit of a steep
rock still called Castle Hill. Among the distinguished
characters connected with the town, have been, Alexander
Scrimgeour, one of the valiant companions of Wallace,
by whom he was made constable of Dundee Castle; Sir
John Scritngeour, afterwards I'iscount Dudhope, a zealous
adherent of Charles I., who fell in the battle of Marstou-
Moor, and whose son was created Earl of Dundee; the
celebrated historian. Hector Boece; the distinguished
Admiral Duncan, who obtained the victory over the
Dutch fleet off Camperdown in 1797, upon which he
was created J iscount Camperdown; also Major-General
Andrew Burn, author of several religious publications,
who was born at Dundee in 174-2, and died at Gillinghara,
in Kent, in 1S14; the late Rev. Dr. Small, for many
years minister of the parish, and author of a work called
Kepler's Discoveries; and the late James Ivory, F.R.S.,
distinguished for his mathematical attainments.