Scotch writer, born at Fodderty, Ross-shire, on the 19th of October 1830. He studied in Marischal College, Aberdeen; later edited newspapers in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London, and contributed theological and antiquarian articles of great erudition to periodical literature. He wrote Christian Life at the Present Time; Chief Actors in the Puritan Revolution; Lessons from My Masters; Two Great Englishwomen; Life of Luther; and a Life of Hugh Miller, whom he succeeded as editor of The Witness. For more than twenty years he was one of the editors of the Christian World, and an exponent of liberal ideas in religion and politics. He died on the 11th of February 1896.
