Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Andrew Duncan's origins and early life are obscure. He was a Regent in St Leonard's College, St Andrews, and Rector of Dundee Grammar School from 1591. During this time he produced several educational works, including Rudimenta Pietatis ("First Principles of Piety"), a catechism which was widely used in Scottish grammar schools until the eighteenth century.
This is a list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland for the year 1606. It lists acts of Parliament of the old Parliament of Scotland, that was merged with the old Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain, by the Union with England Act 1707 (c. 7). For other years, see list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland.
[2] [notes 1] In July 1603, Spottiswoode, David Lindsay's son-in-law, was made Archbishop of Glasgow ; soon afterwards Gladstanes was translated from Caithness to St. Andrews ; and occupants were found for the sees of Caithness, Orkney, the Isles, Galloway, and Moray. The events of 1605, as well as his experience of the English hierarchy, must ...
John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose (1548 – 9 November 1608) was a Scottish peer and Chancellor of the University of St Andrews from 1599 to 1604. He was Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland , from 1605 to 1606.
His mother, Violet Adamson, was sister of Patrick Adamson, [7] archbishop of St. Andrews. Archibald Simson , who wrote his biography, was a younger brother. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Having received a classical education from his father, who was one of the best Latin scholars of the time, Patrick entered St. Mary's College , St. Andrews , at the age of ...
1779 James Gillespie (St Andrews) 1780 Harry Spens (East Wemyss) 1781 William Dalrymple ; 1782 Joseph McCormick (Prestonpans, later Principal of St Leonard's College, University of St Andrews) 1783 Henry Grieve ; 1785 Henry Moncrieff-Wellwood, Bart., (Edinburgh: West) 1786 Duncan Shaw (Aberdeen North)
In Edinburgh, William Douglas helped Wood check the coffers containing Agnes Keith's clothes at Holyrood Palace and her possessions at St Andrews Castle, now in his keeping. [ 9 ] In October 1570 William Douglas was the keeper of the Earl of Northumberland at Lochleven castle and wrote to the English diplomat Thomas Randolph mentioning that ...
The ancestry of King Duncan is not certain. In modern texts, he is the son of Crínán, hereditary lay abbot of Dunkeld, and Bethóc, daughter of King Malcolm II.However, in the late 17th century the historian Frederic Van Bossen, after collecting historical accounts throughout Europe, identified King Duncan as the first son of Abonarhl ap crinan (the grandson of Crinan) and princess Beatrice ...