Gavin Dunbar (bishop of Aberdeen)
Gavin Dunbar | |
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Roman Catholic | |
Diocese | Aberdeen |
In office | 1518–1532 |
Predecessor | Alexander Gordon |
Successor | William Stewart |
Orders | |
Consecration | 20 February 1519 |
Personal details | |
Died | 10 March 1532 St Andrews, Scotland |
Buried | St Machar's Cathedral |
Previous post(s) | Archdeacon of St Andrews Dean of Moray |
Gavin Dunbar (died 1532) was a 16th-century
Gavin Dunbar, Archbishop of Glasgow
, was his nephew.
Life
He was born in Westfield, near Elgin around 1455.[1]
Louis XII of France with Antoine d'Arces[2] They sailed on the Treasurer, but on his return the ship was wrecked and he was captured on the orders of Henry VII of England. He was returned to Scotland, arriving at Edinburgh by November 1508.[3]
He became bishop when he was provided to the Aberdeen Cathedral. To the cathedral, Bishop Dunbar added many structures, including the new south transept. Dunbar was famous for his wisdom and knowledge of the Arts.
. Due to curtailment of the church the actual grave is now external, within an enclosure made of the original lower eastern walls. A partial replica has been made internally but is not the grave.
He died at St Andrews on 10 March 1532, and was buried in the south transept of St Machar's Cathedral in Old Aberdeen
References
- ^ "Gavin Dunbar, Bishop of Aberdeen". 20 November 2023.
- ^ Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1901), pp. lxvi–lxvii, 334, 338, 347.
- ^ Norman Macdougall, James IV (Tuckwell: East Linton, 1997), p. 255.
- Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, Glasgow, (1912)
- Ray McAleese, Bishop Gavin Dunbar: Nobleman, Statesman, Catholic Bishop, Administrator and Philanthropist. ed. by Walter R. H. Duncan, Friends of St Machar, Occasional Publications, Series 2, No. 7 (Aberdeen: Friends of St Machar, 2013), pp. 40.