CANDLISH, ROBERT SMITH 73 ), Scottish vine, was born at Edinburgh on March 23, 1806, and spent his early years in Glasgow, where he graduated in 1823. After short assistant pastorates at St. Andrew's, Glasgow, and Bonhill, Dum bartonshire, he obtained a settled charge as minister of the im portant parish of St. George's, Edinburgh. Here he came to be regarded as one of the ablest preachers in Scotland. His first As sembly speech, delivered in 1839, placed him at once among the leaders of the party that afterwards formed the Free Church, and his influence in bringing about the Disruption of 1843 was inferior only to that of Thomas Chalmers. After Chalmers's death in 1847 he was the most prominent leader in the Free Church. In the year 1862 he succeeded William Cunningham as the prin cipal of New college with the understanding that he should still retain his position as minister of St. George's. He was a prolific writer. He died on Oct. 19, 1873.
See William Wilson, Memorials of R. S. Candlish, D. D. (188o) , with a chapter on his position as a theologian by Robert Rainy.