David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ This honour in Scotland is not national, and a few adjacent chapels and congregations and their incumbents are alone affected by it. Hence, like his predecessors in office, he was not, either in right or, in fact, the Lord Bishop of Edinburgh. He always protested against the designation of “My Lord,” saying, “The Church makes bishops, but the Crown makes lords.” ”

“ In 1845 ne published a volume of sermons, partly with the design to show that “the Episcopal Church in Scotland may still be Protestant in reference to all error, while she is Catholic in reference to all truth.” ”

“ He was brought from India by his widowed mother to Berwick, and there and at Carlisle his early education was conducted. He graduated with honours at Cambridge in 1812, and became a Fellow of Trinity College during the same year. ”