John Erskine of Dun
John Erskine of Dun (1509–1591) was a Scottish religious reformer.
Biography
The son of Sir John Erskine,
the mass openly.[1]
Erskine was a supporter of
Henri II of France. In August 1549 Erskine objected to the appointment of Captain Beauchastell and a French garrison to the fort of Montrose. Guise wrote that he was still technically in command, and that, "Otherwise it is not best that such thing should be done, considering we have written so much good of your part to the king, and that now any thing should be shown of you in the contrary".[2]
In the stormy controversies of the time of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her son,
superintendent of the reformed church of Scotland for Angus and Mearns, and in 1572 he gave his assent to the modified episcopacy proposed by James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton at the Leith convention.[1]
Following his ordination to the ministry in 1561,Second Book of Discipline. From 1579 he was a member of the king's council. Erskine owed his peculiar influence among the Scottish reformers to his personality; Queen Mary described him as "a mild and sweet-natured man, with true honesty and uprightness".[1]
Erskine married Agnes Ogilvy, daughter of Katherine Campbell (d. 1578) and James Ogilvy, Master of Ogilvy.
Notes
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Erskine, John (reformer)". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 755. This article cites:
- "Dun Papers" in the Spalding Club Miscellany, vol. iv. (1849),
- Henderthson, T. F. (1885–1900). . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
