the 12th of November, 1784. On the 19th instant, her dear remains were interred at Richmond. There rest the yet much, valued relics, until a brighter morning clothes them with additional beauty; then, waking up from their temporary slumber, they shall be made like unto Christ's glorified body, according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.

The above account is copied from a letter written by her son, the Rev. Basil Woodd, to the Rev. Dr. Conyers, Rector of St. Paul's, Deptford, dated Greenwich, Nov. 25, 1784.

MRS. MARGARET WALKER.

MRS. WALKER was descended from an ancient family in the shire of Peebles, North Britain. Her father, Mr. James Geddes, an advocate at the Scotch bar, was the only son of James Geddes, of Rachan and Kirkurd, Esq. and of Catherine, the daughter of Sir James Lockhart, of Carstairs. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Patrick Grant, Esq. of Elchies, one of the lords of session and justiciary, and a judge distinguished for knowledge and integrity. The only fruit of this marriage, besides a short-lived infant, was Margaret, the subject of this memoir. She was only two years old when her mother died her father married again, but, in a few years, was cut off by consumption; and before the death of his own father. Mr. Geddes was a man of amiable character and of learning, and left behind him a work on the composition of the Greek authors.

Miss Geddes was born on the 19th of August, 1737. After being at boarding-school in Edinburgh, she was brought up chiefly among her female relations by the mother's side. Lord Elchies kept an exemplary house; his eldest daughter had been a singularly pious woman, and died in great enjoyment of faith and hope. Miss G.'s first serious impressions were formed so early as in her tenth year, under the ministry of some divines of Edinburgh. Mr. Whitefield's first visit to that city, and his occasional labours there afterwards, were made singularly useful to her; as, it is remarkable, they also were to her future husband. She soon felt the opposition between the friendship of this world and that of God; but, having found the pearl of great price, she was enabled to sell all to obtain it. Na

turally amiable, diffident of her opinion, and disposed to yield to the judgement of others, she was yet on this point a determined character very early; and, during her whole life, decision, fervour, and consistency, distinguished her profession of the Gospel.

Miss Geddes occasionally spent some time in the Highlands, where, though she often felt the want of public worship, she was happy in the company, and was reciprocally the great comfort of a most excellent and pious aunt, to whom she was much attached, the deceased Mrs. Grant, of Rothiemurchus. Indeed, as she possessed a remarkably cheerful and social temper, which, notwithstanding all the trials of her past and future life, never forsook her, she was singularly qualified to enliven

others.

From the time that the late Rev. Robert Walker became one of the ministers of the High Church of Edinburgh, she sat under his valuable and faithful ministry. With this most respectable and excellent clergyman, to whom she was related *, she formed a strong friendship, which lasted as long as he lived; and which she considered as one of the chief blessings and privileges of her life. The writer of these pages believes, that it was in the course of this intimacy that she became first known to the gentleman of the same name, though no relation, to whom she afterwards gave her hand; Mr. John Walker, merchant in Edinburgh. Mr. Walker was far her superior in years, but the worth of his character was to her the strongest possible recommendation. They were married on the 29th of October, 1766, and lived together upwards of nineteen years. He died March 13, 1786, aged 74. His character will long be remembered, both in the civil and in the

By his marriage to Sir Robert Dickson's sister, who was her grand-aunt, Lord Elchies' wife having been another sister.