The book Arran; - Cook Clan

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were not to be put off with the gleanings of a kindly old man,
and in a mass they deserted the parish church, never to
return during the six years of Mr. Crawford's presence.
Meantime, under the direction of one of their number, ^ they
continued services in the great cave on the shore below
Kilpatrick, where dissenting ministers occasionally came to
preach to them and administer baptism and communion.
Unfortunate to the last, Crawford was drowned by the
foundering of the boat in which he was crossing from
Greenock to Arran on March 16, 1821. The boat had passed
Cumbrae and was half way over when a squall, bringing
a rain-cloud, burst upon it and sent all to the bottom, including
three other passengers, a student and two young
men. Mr. Crawford was a man of corpulent build. He
is reported to have been ' universally esteemed and beloved
—extensively charitable to the poor and affectionate to the
stranger,' qualifications which 'endeared him to his numerous
circle of friends and acquaintances.' ^
He is garlanded with the authorship of a brochure of
which the title smacks of the seventeenth rather than the
nineteenth century A Mental Toothpick for the Fair Sex.
Mr. Crawford does not seem to have been married.
But that ill wind at last blew to Kilmorie Kirk the man
of their choice, when the presentation of the Rev. Angus
M'Millan was made good in 1822. Twenty-one years later
Mr. M'MiUan ' came out ' at the Disruption, and a new
chapter had opened in the ecclesiastical history of Arran.
A clerical son of Kilmorie, though never a pastor there,
was the distinguished William Shaw, a native of Clachaig,
who in 1778 published the second effort at a Gaelic grammar
as An Analysis of the Gaelic Language, which ran to two
' Mr. William Mackinnon, who in 1836 was the ' patriarch of Arran.' At that date
he was in poor circumstanees, having been deprived of his farm and reduced to the
position of a mere cottar with a house and piece of land.— Lord Teignmouth's Sketches,
etc., vol. ii. pp. 397-8.
2 Glasgow Herald, March 30, 1821.
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