Garden, George (1649-1733), Scottish divine, a younger son of Alexander Garden, minister of Forgue, in Aberdeenshire, and Isobell Middleton, was born at Forgue, and educated at King's College, Aberdeen, where in 1673, at the age of twenty-four, he was already a regent or professor. In 1677 he was ordained by Bishop Scougall and appointed to succeed his father in the church of Forgue, the bishop's son, Henry Scougall, preaching at his induction. Two years later, Garden was promoted to Old Machar (the church of which was the Cathedral of Aberdeen). In June 1678 he preached in the chapel of King's College the funeral sermon on his friend, the admirable Henry Scougall. It is printed in many editions of Scougall's works, and throws light on the ideas of ministerial duty entertained among the clergy of the " Second Episcopacy " (1662-1690). In 1683, Garden, already a D.D., became one of the ministers of St.Nicholas, the town parish of Aberdeen, where he continued till he was " laid aside " by the Privy Council in 1692 for " not praying for their majesties " William and Mary. The Commission of the General Assembly of 1700 had him before them in connection with An Apology for M. Antonia Bourignon (1699, 8vo) attributed to him. Garden, who issued translations of sSva^H of Madame Bourignon's works with prefaces of his own, refused to disavow the authorship, asserted that " the said Apology as to the bulk of the book did represent the great end of Christianity, which is to bring us back to the love of God and charity; and further declared that the essentials of Christianity are set down in the said book and that the accessories contained therein are not contrary thereto ; " whereupon the Commission suspended him from the office of the ministry and cited him to the Assembly of 1701. He did not appear, and the Assembly deposed him, and "prohibited him from exercising the ministry or any part thereof in all time coming." Garden paid no great regard to the sentence, and continued to officiate as before to the members of his former congregation who adhered to Episcopacy. In 1703 he dedicated to Queen Anne, in terms of fervent loyalty to her, but with outspoken censure of the new Presbyterian establishment, his magnificent edition of the works of Dr. John Forbes (1593-1648) (Joannes Forbesii a Corse Opera Omnia), which was published at Amsterdam. Though he had refused to take the oaths to William and Mary, Garden had never approved the arbitrary policy of James 11. ; he accepted the conditions of the Toleration Act (1712), and when after the Peace of Utrecht the Episcopal clergy of Aberdeen drew up an Address of Congratulation to the Queen, he and his brother James were chosen to present it. Introduced by the Earl of Mar, then Secretary of State for Scotland, they were received with marked graciousness, and poured into Her Majesty's not unwilling ear (along with their thanks for the freedom they now enjoyed " not only in their exercise of the pastoral care over a willing people, but also in their use of the liturgy of the Church of England "—then a new thing among the Scotch Episcopalians) their complaints of the persecutions they had lately suffered, and their entreaties for a further measure of relief. The Queen's death made Garden and his brother Jacobites again ; the insurrection of 1715 restored George for a brief period to the pulpit of St. Nicholas, and the brothers were among those who presented to the Pretender at Earl Marischal's house at Fetteresso, Kincardineshire, the Address of the Episcopal clergy of Aberdeen. On the suppression of the rising, Garden was thrown into prison. He managed shortly afterwards to escape to the Continent, but returned to Aberdeen before 1720, when he was talked of for election as their bishop by the Aberdeen clergy. The support he had given to Bourigninianism was held by the Scottish bishops, and by Lockhart, the agent of the exiled prince, sufficient to disqualify him for such promotion. He died on 31st January 1733 (Scott's Fasti has wrongly 1723). It illustrates the spread of " high church " doctrine since the revolution among the Scottish Episcopalians that he was called in his epitaph " Sacerdos." He had fairly earned the praise awarded him of being " literis et pietate insignis." Besides his great edition of Forbes, he was the author of the Queries and Protestation of the Scots Episcopal Clergy given in to the Committee of theGeneral Assembly at Aberdeen. June 1694, 4to, London, 1694; The Case of the Episcopal Clergy, pts. 1 and 2, 4to, Edinburgh, 1703 ; and he is probably the George Garden of Aberdeen who contributed to the Philosophical Transactions of 1677 and 1693. His Bourignianism, says Grub doubtfully, was probably due to sheer weariness of the controversies \®rewith his c^ntry had b<H so long distracted; moreover, his friend Henry Scougall had been in the habit of going to France as well as to Flanders for spiritual improvement. They may be called the Scottish Quietists. Garden's sermon preached at Scougall's funeral was printed first in 1726. He is buried in the churchyard of Old Machar (Diet, of Nat. Biog.).