Rev. Andrew Simson

2 distinct and different persons?

-https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Simson-261 (1520-1590)
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown] [siblings unknown]

-https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LJJ3-KRH/james-andrew-sympson... (1512–1590)
son of Thomas Sympson (1485–1512)
& Katherine Hay (1490–1562)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Simson (c.1526–c.1591)

Andrew Simpson was master of a grammar school with more than 300 students of the nobility & gentry of Scotland at Perth by 1551. Many of his students later became ministers of the Reformed Church and ministers of state. Andrew was a conforming Catholic until the 1550’s, when his unruly students hissed loudly during a visiting friar’s sermon directed against Huguenot preachers. The friar fled from the pulpit in consternation. When the friar complained to the magistrates, Andrew was told to punish the chief offenders. One noble student had been amusing the others by reading satirical verses about monks from the poetry of Sir David Lindsay. The student maintained that laughing at folly was not necessarily heretical, and suggested that the master read Lindsay. Andrew did so, and found the verses reasonable and accurate. Andrew was thus persuaded to become a Reformed minister, first at Dunning & Cargill and at Dunbar 1564-Sep 1582, where he was both minister and grammar school master. On 18 September 1582 the dual post was assumed by Alexander Home, formerly minister at Houndwood. Andrew became minister at Dalkeith 1582-1584, where his son Archibald succeeded him by 1588. Andrew was b.ca.1525 and d.ca.1584. He married ca.1550 Violet Constyne Adamson, ca.1530-1592, d/o Patrick Adamson Sr., a baker in Perth. Violet Adamson’s brother, Patrick Adamson Jr. [ca.1537-1592, m. Elizabeth Arthur] was made archbishop of St. Andrews in 1576 but he denounced episcopacy in 1590. Violet’s son Patrick had previously refused to acknowledge his uncle’s appointment, based on his view that prelacy constituted tyranny to both mind & soul. The six sons of Andrew & Violet were all ministers & their three daughters all married ministers.

From THE SCOTS WORTHIES: THEIR LIVES AND TESTIMONIES”, pp.106-115, by Rev. J. A. Wylie, LL.D. 1808-1890) assisted by Rev. James Anderson. pub. Wm. Mackenzie, Ludgate Hill E.C., Edinburgh & Glasgow. Bios of Reformation figures in Scotland.