The family of Burnett of Leys, with collateral - Electric Scotland

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THE FAMILY OF BURNETT OF LEYS.
(4) ARTHUR DOUGLAS, born 1868.
(5) NORMAN, born 1869.
(1) AGNES MABEL ALICE.
(2) MINA MARY.
(3) EDITH PATRICIA.
2. ALEXANDER, born 1823, died 1857.
3. MARMADUKE, born 1834, died 1865.
1. ELLEN.
2. ELIZABETH PATRICIA, married, 1877, Major
Laye, 9Oth Regiment, who died 1881.
Francis Fenwick
V. EDWARD BANNERMAN, LL.D., in holy orders, dean of Edinburgh,
born 3Oth January, 1793, married, in 1829, Isabella, daughter of
Rupert Cochrane of Halifax, Nova Scotia, who died 23rd July,
1858. He died s.p. 27th December, 1872. Edward was educated
at Durham School and Cambridge University, and was ordained
in 1816. After serving as curate at Rodden and Buckland in
Somersetshire, he removed to Edinburgh, where he spent the
rest of his life. His first appointment there was as curate to the
Rev. R. Q. Shannon, St. George's, York Place, where he remained
for five and a-half years ; then he became incumbent for one
year of the curious old church, St. Paul's, Carrubbers Close, now
replaced by a new and handsome edifice, and finally settled down
in 1827 at St. John the Evangelist, Princes Street, first as curate
to Bishop Sandford, and afterwards as incumbent, being also
made Dean of the Diocese in 1846. Dean Ramsay was a man
of considerable accomplishments ; he wrote with great facility
and excellent style ; was an admirable reader and elocutionist ;
an ardent florist in his youth, and to the very last an enthusiastic
as well as a highly cultivated musician. He possessed great
skill as a flautist, sang well, and understood perfectly the con-
struction and mechanism of the organ, while as an authority on
all matters connected with the works of Handel he was con-
sidered hardly second to any man of his day. His lectures
on that composer, whose genius he admired beyond measure,
delivered to the members of the Edinburgh Philosophical