Robert Laurie (bishop)

Robert Laurie MA (c.1617–1677) was a seventeenth-century Church of Scotland prelate. He was minister of Stirling before becoming, after the Restoration and the reinstitution of episcopal order in Scotland, Dean of Edinburgh.

Life

He was the son of Rev Joseph Laurie minister of Perth. He graduated MA from St Andrews University in 1636 and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Perth in 1641. In 1644 he was ordained at Trinity College Church in Edinburgh an in 1648 translated to the nearby Tron Kirk and to the High Kirk of St Giles in 1662.[1]

In 1671 he became Bishop of Brechin, but because this was largely a nominal title was allowed to return to minister at Holy Trinity in 1674.

He served as Bishop of Brechin until his death in 1677. The historian Robert Keith referred to him as "a celebrated preacher, and a man of moderation".[2]

Notes
  1. Fasti Ecclesiastae Scoticana by Hew Scott
  2. Keith, Historical Catalogue, p. 168.

References
  • Keith, Robert (1824), An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down to the Year 1688 (New ed.), London: Printed for Bell & Bradfute


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