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Spottiswoode, John (1565–1639)  

Maker: Wenceslaus Hollar

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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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23 September 2004
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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 ...

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Taylor, James (1813–1892), minister of the United Presbyterian church, civil servant, and historian  

T. B. Johnstone

revised by H. C. G. Matthew

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23 September 2004
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Taylor, James (1813–1892), minister of the United Presbyterian church, civil servant, and historian, was born in Greenlaw, Berwickshire, on 18 March 1813, the son of Alexander Taylor, farmer, and his wife Violet, née Pringle. From the parochial school of his native district he passed to the ...