Thomas Smeton
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Thomas Smeton, Smeaton or Smieton (1536–1583) was a Scottish minister and
Principal of Glasgow University
.
Life
He was born at
massacre of St. Bartholomew, taking refuge with Francis Walsingham, the English ambassador. On arriving in England he publicly renounced Catholicism, and settled in Colchester
as a schoolmaster.
In 1577 he returned to Scotland, and was appointed minister of
University of St. Andrews
, but the king, instigated by the prior of St. Andrews, who was opposed to the appointment, forbade his nomination, on the grounds of the loss it would inflict on the university of Glasgow. On his return to Glasgow Smeton was seized with a high fever, and died on 13 December 1583. He married before 1575, and had a son Thomas.
Works
Smeton was author of Ad Virulentum Archibaldi Hamiltonii Apostatae Dialogum, de Confusione Calvinianae Sectae apud Scotos, impie conscriptum. Orthodoxa Responsio, Edinburgh, 1579; a reply to Archibald Hamilton. With this work was a life of John Knox, Eximii viri Joannis Knoxii, Scoticanae Ecclesiae Instauratori, vera Extreme Vitae Obitus Historia. Thomas Dempster also attributes to Smeton Epitaphium Metellani.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Smeton, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.- Reid, Henry Martin Beckwith (1917). The divinity principals in the University of Glasgow. Glasgow: J. Maclehose. pp. 1-82. Retrieved 9 July 2019.
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