MACDIARMID, JOHN, was born at Edinburgh in 1789, and educated at the university of that city, where he afterwards commenced his career as a clerk in the Commercial Bank. Having a taste for literature, which he as-
1 It may be noticed, that Dr McCrie, in May 1834, visited London to give his evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons on Church Patronage. His evidence forms part of the voluminous Report on that question, pp. 355-374, and 383-393.
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siduously cultivated, he became editor of the Dumfries Courier in 1817, which he conducted with originality and taste. He died November 12, 1852. In addition to his contributions to the newspaper, he published The History of Dumfries, A Guide to Moffat, A Life of Coeper, A Life of William Nicholson the Galloway Poet, Sketches from Nature, The Scrap-Book, &c.