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a Scotch prelate, was first minister at Ellon, Abeirdeenshire, and afterwards at the Tron Church, and dean of the city of Edinburgh. He was preferred by the interest of the duke of Lauderdale to the see of Galloway, October 23, 1674, where he continued until March 29, 1679, when he was translated to Edinburgh. In 1687 he was put into the see of Glasgow, where he continued until the revolution in 1688. He died at. Edinburgh, December 8, 1708. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, pages 64, 270, 282.