John Adair, Geographer for Scotland (alive in 1715).
—I am anxious to obtain some information respecting the ancestry, wife, death, and descendants of this individual. I am already aware of the notices of him in Chalmers's Caledonia (ii. 58.), and in the Bannatyne Miscellany (ii. 347.).
E. N.
Clergymen first styled Reverend.
—I should be obliged if any of your correspondents would inform me when the word "Reverend" first came into use as distinctive of a clergyman. It never seems to have been applied to Hooker, who is always called Mr. Hooker in the different editions of his works.
QUESTOR.
Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes.
—Information is requested as to the descendants of the Rev. Nathaniel Spinckes, one of the Nonjuring divines, who died July 28, 1727. He was rector of Glinton with Peakirk, Northamptonshire; and it appears from Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary that he left two children, William Spinckes, Esq., and Anne, who married Anthony Cope, Esq.
J. P. JR.