James Drummond (bishop)
James Drummond (1629–13 April 1695) was a seventeenth-century Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland who rose to be Protestant Bishop of Brechin.
Life
The third son of the Reverend James Drummond,
He began his church career around 1650 as minister of Auchterarder, before becoming the incumbent at Muthill (Strathearn) in 1655.[2]
In October 1682 St Andrews University awarded him a Doctor of Divinity.
When in December 1684, the
Bishop Drummond, like all Scottish bishops, was deprived of his temporalities after the Revolution of 1688, and preached his last sermon at Brechin on 14 April 1689. Afterwards, he spent much time in Slains Castle near Cruden Bay, the home of John Hay, 12th Earl of Erroll and his wife, Lady Anne Drummond (Bishop Drummond's cousin). He did much work for the parish and built the bridge called the "Bishop's Bridge".[1]
He died of dropsy on 13 April 1695, aged sixty-six years old. He is buried in Cruden parish churchyard. He left the earl his library of 360 books.
He was unmarried and had no children.[2]
References
- Keith, Robert (1824). "An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688" (New ed.). London: Printed for Bell & Bradfute.
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- ^ a b Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; vol. 7; by Hew Scott
- ^ ISBN 0-567-08746-8.