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Selected Families and Individuals
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David Garvin
Emigrationed in 1684 From Scotland To North Ireland due to religious persecution.
John Spottiswoode
Archbishop of St. Andrew's, Primate of Scotland, Chancellor religion: Church of Scotland, later Church of England Archbishop John Spottiswoode was descended from an ancient baronial family in the parish of Gordon, in the county of Berwick, being the son of the Rev. Dr. John Spottiswoode, 1510-1585, "a man of great learning and piety." Archbishop Spottiswoode died in London 27th of December, 1639, and interred in Westminster Abby.
John Spottiswoode
Occupation: Parson of Calder religion: Church of Scotland He was left an orphan at the age of four, when his father was killed at the unfortunate battle of Flodden Field. Though young at the time of his father's death, John had a liberal education, and passed his course at the College of Glasgow, where he took his degrees of Master of Arts, and Doctor of Divinity. He was considered a man of great learning and piety. Theology having been his chief study, he became a great ornament to the Church of Scotland, where he took great pains in promoting the interest of the reformation. He became a prominent character at the time of the Reformation in Scotland, and one of the first Provincial Superintendents having Lothian, Merce, Teviotdale, etc. In 1558, John witnessed the marriage of Queen Mary to the Dauphin of France. And, on the birth of James VI in 1566, he was deputed to congratulate Queen Mary on that event. Subsequently James, on the enforced abdication of his mother the 24th of July, 1567, became King and was crowned at Stirling on the 29th of that month, Spottswood officiating on that occasion and placing the crown on the Kings head. By a curious coincidence the Superintendent's son, the Archbishop, some sixty-six years later, officiated in a similar capacity at the coronation of King James' son and successor, Charles I. At the General Assembly in 1576 complaints were made about Spottswood's having inaugurated the Bishop of Ross in the Abbey of Holyrood, but no further action was taken against him. Though he repeatedly expressed a wish to be relieved of his duties of superintendent, he was retained in the office until his death on the 5th of December, 1585, in the 76th year of his age. Served as Parson of Calder, a Protestant leader
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