Rule, Gilbert
| Dates | c.1657-1662 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | Alnwick | ||
| Vocation | Minister; author | ||
| Place of Birth | Scotland | ||
| Marriage | Janet Turnbull | ||
| Issue | 3 sons; 2 daughters | ||
| Place of birth | Source | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Regent (1651) and sub-prinicpal (1652) at King's College (1651), Aberdeen. Moved to England (c.1657) as curate of Alnwick. Survived attempted ejection at the Restoration, but forced out by the Act of Uniformity (1662). Returned to Scotland, but travelled to France before taking a degree of MD from Leiden (1666). Later active on the Anglo-Scottish border as both a physician and a Presbyterian preacher. Imprisoned in the Bass Rock (1680), and ejected from Scotland upon his release the same year. Preached for a time in Dublin, but returned to Scotland at the Revolution as minister of Old Greyfriars (1688). Part of the commission that visited Edinburgh college (1690), and elected to replace the outsed principle, Munro, Alexander. Published several pro-Presbyterian texts.
