Robert Wodrow [SEP] date of birth
Robert Wodrow
Robert Wodrow (1679 – 21 March 1734) was a Scottish minister and historian, known as a chronicler and defender of the Covenanters.
Biography.
Robert Wodrow was born at Glasgow, where his father, James Wodrow, was a professor of divinity. Robert was educated at the university and was librarian from 1697 to 1701. From 1703 till his death, he was parish minister at Eastwood, near Glasgow. He had sixteen children, his son Patrick being the "auld Wodrow" of Burns's
David Ferguson (reformer)
David Fergusson or Ferguson (died 1598) was a Scottish reformer.
Life.
His date of birth is debated, and he is reputed to have been a native of Dundee. Robert Wodrow states that he was by trade a glover, but gave up business and went to school, in order to fit himself for the duties of a preacher or expounder among the reformers. The Scottish doctor of the Sorbonne James Laing sneered at him as an ignorant cobbler (sutor) and glover.