Rev. William Carstairs

Information source: http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I29115&tree=...

Minister of St. Giles, 2nd Charge.

• KINSHIP: Eldest son.
• EDUCATION: Edinburgh; Utrecht.
• OCCUPATION: Principal of Edinburgh University, 1703.
• CHURCH: Returned to Holland after receiving license to preach; returned to Holland, 1684-1685.
• CHURCH: Minister of Greyfriars, 1704.
• CHURCH: Translated to that charge, 1706
• CHURCH: Minister of St. Giles, and the High Kirk, Second Charge, 1707.
• CHURCH: Made chaplain to the Prince of Orange.
• CHURCH: Expelled from office, 1689.
• CHURCH: Chaplain to Queen Anne, and King George I.
• CHURCH: Moderator of Assembly, 1705.
• CHURCH: Moderator of Assembly, re-elected 1708, 1711, 1715.
• PUNISHMENT: Became involved in the Ryehouse Plot and was arrested at Tenterden, Kent; in prison for a year and a half, London, Edinburgh, and Stirling.

Another potted biography here: http://www.electricscotland.com/history/nation/carstairs.htm.

And another here: http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/carstairs_william.htm

Fasti biography: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. I, page 66

Edinburgh University & Utrecht University, clergyman, close friend of Prince of Orange. Committed to the Tower in 1674 and then to Edinburgh Castle 1675, released 1679. Implicated in the Rye House Plot. Court Chaplain to William of Orange, later to Queen Anne. Principal of Edinburgh University