WILLIAM, Dean of Edinburgh, the son of William Annand, minister of Ayr, was born at Ayr in 1633. Five years after, his father was obliged to quit Scotland with his family, on account of their adherence to the king and to the Episcopal form of church government. In 1651 young Annand was admitted a scholar in University College, Oxford; and in 1656, being then bachelor of arts, was appointed preacher at Weston on the Green, near Bicester in Oxfordshire. After he had taken the degree of master of arts, he was presented to the vicarage of Leighton-Buzzard in Bedfordshire, where he distinguished himself by his edifying manner of preaching. In 1662 he went to Scotland as chaplain to John Earl of Middleton, the king's high commissioner to the parliament of that kingdom. In the end of the year 1663 he was instituted to the Tolbooth Church at Edinburgh, and from thence was removed, some years after, to the Tron Church of that city. In April 1676 he was nominated by the king to the Deanship of Edinburgh; and in 1685 he was made doctor of divinity in the university of St Andrew. He wrote several books on religious and ecclesiastical subjects. He died on the 13th of June 1689, and was interred in the Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh.