Difference between revisions of "Robert Wodrow"

<p> a Scotch minister, antiquary, and ecclesiastical historian, was born in [[Glasgow]] in 1679. He entered the university in his native city in 1691, and became librarian of the college while studying divinity; was licensed to preach in March 1703; ordained in the summer of the same year, minister ot Eastwood, in Renfrewshire, where he prosecuted his literary labors during the remainder of his life; was. active in the interests of a free church, opposing the act of 1712 for re-establishing patronage, and becoming the most prominent member of a committee of five clergymen deputed by the General [[Assembly]] to proceed to London, on the accession of [[George]] I, to urge its repeal. He died March 21, 1734. He published, History of the Sufferings of the [[Church]] of Scotland, from the [[Restoration]] to the [[Revolution]] (1721-22; republished with Memoir, etc., 1828-30): — Life of Professor (James) Wodrow, A.M., Professor of [[Divinity]] in the University of Glasgow from 1692 to 1707 (1828): — Collections upon the [[Lives]] of the [[Reformers]] and Most [[Eminent]] Ministers of the Church of [[Scotland]] (1834-45): — Analecta; or, Materials for a History of Remarkable Providences, etc. (1842-43), and other works. </p>

<p> Scottish [[Church]] historian, born at Glasgow; studied at the University, became librarian, and settled as minister at Eastwood, Renfrewshire; was diligent with his pen; left 50 volumes of MSS., only one of which was published in his lifetime, "History of the Sufferings of the Church of [[Scotland]] from the [[Restoration]] to the Revolution," the rest having been in part published by several antiquarian societies since (1679-1734). </p>