Lindsay, David

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Dates 1638-c.1640
Location England
Vocation Minister; bishop
Place of Birth Dunkenny, Angus
Marriage Christian Rutherford; Katherine Ramsay
Issue
Place of birth Source H. Scott, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, 7 vols (Edinburgh, 1915–28), vii, 341

Master of grammar schools at Montrose and Dundee (1597). Minister of Guthrie (1599) and Dundee (1605). Bishop of Brechin (1619) and Edinburgh (1634). Crowned Charles I during his Scottish coronation (1633). Narrowly avoided injury during prayer book riots (1637), and deposed by General Assembly (1638). Fled to England, where he died.