John Paterson (archbishop of Glasgow)
The Most Reverend John Paterson | |
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Alexander Cairncross | |
| Successor | Episcopacy abolished |
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| Consecration | 1674 by Robert Leighton |
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| Born | 1632 |
| Died | 9 December 1708 Edinburgh |
| Previous post(s) | Bishop of Galloway; Bishop of Edinburgh |
John Paterson (1632–1708) was the last
Biography
Early career
He probably continued to teach there until called to succeed his father, though not without some opposition,
Bishop of Galloway
He strongly opposed the proposal of the more
Bishop of Edinburgh
He was translated to the bishopric of Edinburgh on 29 March 1679. In the previous January he had obtained licence from the king to reside in Edinburgh, on the ground that he had not a competent manse or dwelling-house in Galloway.[3] A pension was granted him on 9 July 1680. He is found assisting on 15 March 1685 at Lambeth at Sancroft's consecration of Baptist Levinz, the bishop of Sodor and Man.
On 20 July 1685 an order was made for an annual payment to him by the
Archbishop of Glasgow
He was rewarded by being nominated to the
After the revolution
He remained in Edinburgh, living in privacy, after the Revolution, but is said to have been arrested in 1692 on suspicion of holding correspondence with the exiled court, and to have been imprisoned in
Episcopal clergy
In that year he wrote a letter from Edinburgh to Henry Compton, Bishop of London, on the subject of toleration for the episcopal clergy. He exerted himself in the following years, together with the other Scottish bishops, in endeavouring to obtain grants from the government for relief of poor clergymen, as well as some allowance for themselves out of the revenues of their sees. It was the queen's intention that such grants should be made, but it was not carried into real effect, except with regard to Bishop Alexander Rose of Edinburgh and Paterson himself.
On 7 December 1704 Paterson and Bishop Rose, with others, accredited Dr. Robert Scot,
Death
He died at his house in Edinburgh on 9 December 1708 and was buried on 23 December in the Chapel Royal of Holyrood[8] , at the east end of the north side, at the foot of Bishop Wishart's monument. He married Margaret Wemyss of Contin in 1654. She had died before 1696, in which year he records in his diary an offer of marriage from Lady Warner. He speaks in several letters of his numerous family.
Notes
- ^ Synod Records of Aberdeen, Spalding Club, 1846, p. 260.
- ^ LAWSON, Hist. of Scottish Episcopal Church, p. 34; GRUB, Eccl. Hist. of Scotl. iii. p. 249)
- ^ STEPHENS, Life of Sharpe, p. 568.
- ^ Hist. MSS. Comm. 11th Rep. App. vi. p. 175.
- ^ Hist. MSS. Comm. 12th Rep. App. vii. p. 237.
- ^ W. Nelson Clarke's preface to a "Collection of Letters", &c. (Edinburgh, 1848), p. xxxi.
- ^ I.e. in the "Antiquarian Communications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society", ii. pp. 226–231.
- ^ Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions: Chiefly in Scotland
References
- Tristram Clarke, "Paterson, John (1632–1708)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 retrieved 10 May 2007
- Robert Keith, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688, (London, 1824)
- Macray, William Dunn (1895). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Paterson, John (1632-1708)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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