Walter Whitford
Religious Leader
– 1647
Who was Walter Whitford?
Walter Whitford was a seventeenth-century Scottish minister, prelate and Royalist. After graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1604, he began a career in the Church of Scotland taking a variety of posts until being appointed Bishop of Brechin in 1635.
As a bishop, Whitford was already a suspicious figure among hardline Presbyterians, and he made himself more unpopular by backing the attempt by the monarchy to impose Archbishop William Laud's prayer book on his congregation. After the abolition of episcopacy by the Church of Scotland in 1639, Whitford was deprived of his bishopric and fled to England. There he retained his sympathy for the monarchy, gaining a small position there before dying in 1647.
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- Religion
- Church of Scotland
- Education
- University of Glasgow
- Died
- 1647
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on July 23, 2013
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