George Haliburton (bishop of Aberdeen)

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The Right Reverend

George Haliburton
Bishop of Aberdeen
ChurchChurch of Scotland
SeeDiocese of Aberdeen
In office1682–1689
PredecessorPatrick Scougal
Successor-
Orders
Consecration13 June 1678 (Brechin)
Personal details
Bornc. 1635
Possibly Perthshire
Died1715
Halton, Angus
Previous post(s)Brechin (1678–1682)

George Haliburton (c. 1635 – 1715) was a

cleric and Jacobite. He was both Bishop of Aberdeen and Chancellor of King's College, Aberdeen
.

Life

Haliburton received his education at

Doctorate in Divinity
in 1673.

He was made minister of

Presbytery of Meigle from 1678 until he became Bishop of Brechin, receiving consecration as bishop at St Andrews Cathedral on 13 June 1678. The latter encompassed the roles of provost and minister of Brechin
, but nevertheless George remained minister of Coupar Angus.

On 22 June 1682, Haliburton was selected to move to the larger

episcopacy, and was an active persecutor of the Quakers. In 1688, after the Glorious Revolution, episcopacy was defeated in Scotland and all Church of Scotland bishops were deprived of their sees
, including Haliburton. Haliburton was formally deprived of his bishopric on 22 July 1689.

Haliburton moved to Newtyle parish in Angus, assisting the work of an episcopal minister there until the Church of Scotland forcibly took over control of it in 1698. He then retired to his own residence at nearby Halton, and received a pension in the following year. Haliburton became increasingly sympathetic towards Jacobitism and ordained clergy, working closely with re-established episcopalian bishops and archbishops, though the latter often did not inform him about the secret consecrations of new bishops which were taking place.

He moved to Denhead in 1710. He died at Halton on 29 September 1715. Twenty days earlier he had attended the raising of the standard of the

Fetteresso, the act which initiated the First Jacobite rising
.

Family

He married Agnes Campbell of Keithock widow of David Haliburton of Pitcur (a cousin). Following her death he married Ms. Rutherford (d. 1738) by whom he had several children:[1]

References

  1. ^ Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; vol. 7; by Hew Scott
  • Clarke, Tristram, "Haliburton, George (1635?–1715)", in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , Retrieved 23 Feb 2007
  • Keith, Robert, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688, (London, 1924)
Church of Scotland titles
Preceded by Bishop of Brechin
1678–1682
Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of Aberdeen
1682–1689
Episcopacy abolished