Paterson, John

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Dates 1695-1696
Location London
Vocation Minister; bishop
Place of Birth Scotland
Marriage Mary Foulis; Margaret Wemyss
Issue Anna; James; Andrew; Agnes; Charles; John; Alexander; Helen; Elizabeth; Catherine; Isabel; Margaret
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, 324

Minister of Ellon (1659) and Tron Kirk, Edinburgh (1663). Chaplain to the king (1668). Dean of Edinburgh (1672). Bishop of Galloway (1674). Archbishop of Glasgow (1687). Deposed at the Revolution (1688), after which he fled Scotland. After stints at Leiden and Hamburg, he was in London (1695-1696), during which he kept a well-known journal. Returned to Edinburgh soon afterwards, and became a champion of the Scots Episcopalians.