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Leighton, Robert
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A Scottish theologian, the son of a Puritan clergyman in London, who wrote a book against prelacy, and suffered cruelly at the hands of Laud in consequence; studied at Edinburgh; entered the Church, and became Presbyterian minister at Newbattle in 1641, but resigned in 1653; was made Principal of Edinburgh University; reluctantly consented to accept a bishopric, and chose the diocese of Dunblane, but declined all lordship connected with the office; was for a time archbishop of Glasgow; retired to England in 1674, and lived ten years afterwards with a widowed sister in Sussex; he was a most saintly man, and long revered as such by the Scottish people; his writings, which are highly imaginative, were much admired by Coleridge (1611-1684).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Leighton, Robert'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/l/leighton-robert.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Leighton, Robert'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/l/leighton-robert.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
