Macknight, Dr JAMES

Macknight, Dr JAMES, an eminent divine of the Church of Scotland, was born at Irvine, in Ayrshire, 17th September 1721; studied at Glasgow University, and afterwards at Leyden, in Holland; and in 1753 was ordained minister of the parish of Maybole. In 1769 he was translated to Jedburgh, and thence to Edinburgh in 1772, where he died, 13th January 1800. Macknight was a superior scholar, a liberal, wise, and prudent ecclesiastic, and a respectable writer on Scripture subjects. His principal works are Harmony of the Four Gospels (1756); The Truth of the Gospel History (1763); and A New Translation of the Apostolical Epistles, with Commentary and Notes (1795).