Andrew Lamb (bishop)
The Right Reverend Andrew Lamb | |
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Bishop of Galloway | |
Church | Church of Scotland |
See | Diocese of Galloway |
In office | 1619–1634 |
Predecessor | William Couper |
Successor | Thomas Sydserf |
Orders | |
Consecration | 21 October 1610 by George Abbot |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1565 |
Died | 1634 |
Previous post(s) | Bishop of Brechin (1607–1619) Minister of Burntisland (1593–1596) Minister of Arbroath (1596–1600) Minister of South Leith (1600–?) |
Andrew Lamb (1565? – 1634), was Bishop of Brechin and Bishop of Galloway.
Life
He was probably son or relative of Andrew Lamb of Leith, a lay member of the General Assembly of 1560. The latter purchased the late Mary of Guise's Leith "palace" (around 1562) and so Andrew was probably born and raised there. He became minister of Burntisland, Fife, in 1593, was translated to Arbroath in 1596, and home to South Leith Parish Church in July 1600.
The same year he was appointed one of the members of the standing commission of the church, and in 1601 was made a royal
He was a member of the assembly of 1610 which allowed spiritual jurisdiction to the bishops, and was one of the three Scottish prelates who were consecrated at London in October of that year. In 1615 he presented a beautiful brass chandelier to the cathedral of Brechin, still to be seen there.
He was translated to the
It is said by the biographers of Samuel Rutherford that, at his admission to the parish of Anwoth, Kirkcudbrightshire, Lamb connived at his ordination by presbyters only. There is no evidence for this, but he was tolerant to Rutherford and others who did not conform to the articles enjoined by the Perth assembly.
He left a son James and two daughters, one of whom married Lennox of Cally and the other Murray of Broughton, both in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright. Several of his letters have been published in Original Letters relating to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of Scotland.
References
- Adams, Sharon "Lamb, Andrew (1565?–1634)", in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 30 Sept 2007
- Keith, Robert, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688, (London, 1824)
- Sprott, G. W. (1892). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Watt, D. E. R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: George Washington Sprott (1892). "Lamb, Andrew". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 31. London: Smith, Elder & Co.