The Right Reverend David Fletcher, Bishop of Argyll

Biographical Summary

"David Fletcher, born about 1605, second son of Andrew F., merchant, Dundee [of the Fletchers of Innerpeffer], and brother of Sir John F., Lord Advocate ; educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A. (1625) ; adm. to St Giles, Edinburgh, 22nd May 1635 ; dep. by Commission of Assembly, 1st Jan. 1639, for declining the Glasgow Assembly of 1638, and reading and defending the Service Book ; reponed 27th Aug. 1639 ; adm. to Melrose 4th Feb. 1641 ; promoted to this See (retaining his parochial charge) ; app. by Charles II. 18th Jan., pres. 3rd June 1662, and consecrated (at Glasgow) in the end of same month ; died March 1665, and was buried in Melrose Abbey. He was greatly esteemed, and gave much attention to the education of his parishioners, a school at Melrose being built from funds bequeathed by him. He marr. Elizabeth (who survived him), daugh. of John Strang, D.D., Principal of Univ. of Glasgow, and had issue —

• Christian, bapt. 3rd Dec. 1648 (marr., cent. 29th Aug. 1671, Henry Home of Kames)
• Janet, bapt. 3rd Dec. 1652 (marr. 9th Sept. 1673, Thomas Gordon, W.S.), died 4th May 1693
• Archibald, bapt. 17th July 1656
• Elizabeth, bapt. 17th July 1657 (marr. 29th April 1685, James Leslie, advocate)
• William of Cranstoun, advocate (1676), died June 1685. [He erected a memorial tablet to his father at Melrose, which is now almost illegible]."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 333

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Genealogy

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