John Bethune, Min. of Bracadale

Biographical Summary

"John Bethune, born about 1642, son of Angus B., one of the physicians of the Isles ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (31st July 1662); adm. before 1689; was received into Presbyterian Church at or before 21st May 1692; died 12th Jan. 1708. He was "a learned divine and an able physician," and the first in the Island, it is said, who dispensed the communion in the Presbyterian form. He marr. Marion, daugh. of John Macleod of Drynoch, and had issue —

• Farquhar of Kilellan, died 1762
• Kenneth, min. of Kilmuir
• and two daughs., one marr. Neil M'Eacharn of Kilellan, Kintyre, the other M'Leod of Gesto."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 166