12 Facts About John Winram

John Winram was a 16th-century Scottish priest and ecclesiastical reformer.

John Winram was born in 1492, the son of one James Winram of Ratho and his wife Margaret Wilkie.

John Winram obtained a Bachelor's Degree, a Master's Degree and a Doctorate from St Leonard's College, University of St Andrews.

John Winram was a keen reformer, but it was not until the Scottish Reformation came fully into being that he accepted a break with the Roman Catholic Church.

John Winram had married Margaret Stewart, the illegitimate daughter of Alexander Stewart, Bishop of Moray, in 1562.

The former suffered from severe disability, though the latter was healthy and he and John Winram had a mutually beneficial relationship until the death of Margaret led to a dispute about her will.

John Winram was buried in the chapel of St Leonard's College.

John Winram, was a Scottish reformer, descended from the Winrams or Winrahams of Kirkness or Ratho, Fifeshire.

In regard to Knox, John Winram adopted a similarly impartial attitude.

John Winram was present at the parliament at which it was ratified, and spoke in its support, and, after the ratification, was appointed one of a commission to draw up the "Book of Discipline".

John Winram is described by Quentin Kennedy as "wonderfullie learnit baith in the New Testament, Auld Testament, and mekle mair [much more]", and it is very clear that he was more of a scholar than a controversialist.

John Winram seems not to have been specially enamoured of the puritanic Calvinism of the leading Scottish reformers, and in his final adherence to the Reformation he was probably influenced mainly by considerations of expediency.