Prof. Henry Scougal, Professor of Divinity, King's College

Biographical Summary

"Henry Scougal, born probably at Leuchars, June 1650, son of Patrick S., min. of Leuchars, afterwards Bishop of Aberdeen ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1668) ; app. regent in that College, 25th May 1669, and Professor of Philosophy, 1669-72 ; passed trials before Presb. of Haddington, and recommended for licence 26th Sept. 1672 ; ord. to Auchterless in 1673 ; adm. to this Chair 11th Aug. 1674 ; died of consumption, unmarr., 13th June 1678, and was buried in the Univ. Chapel of King's College. His integrity of life, deep spiritual insight, and early death, have enrolled him among the saints of the Scottish Church, and his Life of God in the Soul of Man is a religious classic. To it George Whitefield ascribed "his first conviction of that doctrine of free salvation which he afterwards made it the great object of his life to teach."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 371