John Spottiswoode was an Archbishop of St Andrews, Primate of All Scotland, Lord Chancellor, and historian of Scotland.
10 Facts About John Spottiswoode
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John Spottiswoode was born in 1565 at Greenbank in Mid Calder, West Lothian, Scotland, the eldest son of John Spottiswood, minister of Calder and superintendent of Lothian.
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John Spottiswoode was educated at the University of Glasgow, and succeeded his father in the parish of Calder in 1583.
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John Spottiswoode followed James VI and I to England on his accession at the Union of the Crowns.
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John Spottiswoode was sent back to Scotland to attend Anne of Denmark as her almoner or "elemosynar".
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John Spottiswoode was therefore ready to co-operate with James in curtailing the powers of the Kirk which encroached on the royal authority, and in assimilating the Church of Scotland to that of England.
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John Spottiswoode founded Dairsie Old Church, and re-built Dairsie Castle as a family home.
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John Spottiswoode was opposed to the new liturgy as inexpedient, but when he could not prevent its introduction he took part in enforcing it.
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John Spottiswoode published in 1620 Refutatio libelli de regimine ecclesiae scoticanae, an answer to a tract of Calderwood, who replied in the Vindiciae subjoined to his Altare damascenum.
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John Spottiswoode married Rachel, daughter of David Lindsay, Bishop of Ross, with issue a daughter and two sons:.