, advocate. On his marriage, he obtained the land of Bardennoch. He also became Provost of Dumfries about 1640 to 1645, and having received an authority from the commissioners or collectors of the tenth and twentieth pennies and rents of unfriends and bishops within Galloway, soon became possessed of a considerable property. He had sasine of Meikleknox in July 1668 13th of Meille Knox.