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Spottiswoode, John (1565–1639)  

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
John Spottiswoode (1565–1639) by Wenceslaus Hollar, pubd 1655 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Spottiswoode, John (1565–1639), archbishop of St Andrews and historian  

A. S. Wayne Pearce

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Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Spottiswoode, John (1565–1639), archbishop of St Andrews and historian, was born in Greenbank, in the barony of Calder, Edinburghshire, the eldest son of John Spottiswoode (1509/10–1585), the widely respected protestant reformer and superintendent of Lothian and Tweeddale, and Beatrix Crichton, the daughter of ...