Patrick Scougal, Bishop of Aberdeen

Biographical Summary

"Patrick Scougal, born 1607, son of Sir John S. of Scougal, Haddingtonshire; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh; M.A. (1624); ord. to Dairsie in 1636; trans. to Leuchars March 1645; to Saltoun 29th Jan. 1659; app. to this See by Charles II. 25th Feb. and consecrated (at St Andrews) on Easter Monday 11th April 1664; Chancellor of King's College same year; died of asthma, in the Chanonry, Old Aberdeen, 16th Feb. 1682. An Aberdeenshire tradition describes him as big eyed, grey haired, tall and stooping, and of a very fearful aspect. He made benefactions to St Machar's Cathedral, the library of King's College, and the Public Hospital of Old Aberdeen. He marr. (1) before 1654, Jean Wemyss; (2) 6th Jan. 1660, Anne Congalton (afterwards Lady Gunsgreen, died Dec. 1696), and had issue - John, Commissary and Provost of Old Aberdeen; Henry, Professor of Divinity, King's College, born June 1650; James, Lord (Whitehall) of Session, died 23rd Dec. 1702; Katherine (marr. (1) 10th Nov. 1665, William Scrogie, Bishop of Argyll; (2) Patrick Forbes, Bishop of Caithness; (3) Roderick Mackenzie of Kinchullardrum); Joanna or Jane (marr. Patrick Sibbald, D.D., Professor of Divinity in Marischal College."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 331