| The name, which is a
shortened form Christian and possibly also of Christopher, is established in Fife and
Stirlingshire. William Christie (1748-1823), son of a provost of Montrose, was the first
Uniarian minister in Scotland. Thomas Christie (1773-1829), born in Carnwath, Lanarkshire,
successfully introduced vaccination against smallpox in Ceylon, and was latterly a
physician extraordinary to the Price Regent. Said to be a sept of the Clan
Farquharson. |
