David Low (November 1768 – 26 January 1855) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Scottish Episcopal Church as the Bishop of Ross (1819–1850), Bishop of Argyll (1819–1846) and Bishop of Moray (1838–1850).
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Born in Brechin, Scotland in November 1768, he was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen.[1] He was ordained a deacon and priest in 1789 by John Strachan, Bishop of Brechin.[1] Low, presbyter of St John's Episcopal Church, Pittenweem, was unanimously elected Bishop of Ross and of Argyll by the clergy of those dioceses in 1819.[1][2] He was consecrated at Stirling on 14 November 1819 by George Gleig, Bishop of Brechin and Primus; Alexander Jolly, Bishop of Moray; and Patrick Torry, Bishop of Dunkeld and of Dunblane.[1][2] On the death of Jolly in 1838, Low also became the Bishop of Moray.[1] He resigned the See of Argyll in 1846,[1] and four years later, resigned the Sees of Moray and Ross on 19 December 1850.[3]
Low died at Pittenweem on 26 January 1855, aged 86, and was buried in a grave on the south-side of St John's Episcopal Church, Pittenweem on 1 February 1855.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f Dowden 1912, The Bishops of Scotland, p. 425.
- ^ a b Keith 1824, An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops, p. 551.
- ^ a b Dowden 1912, The Bishops of Scotland, p. 426.
Bibliography
edit- Dowden, John (1912). Thomson, J. Maitland (ed.). The Bishops of Scotland. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Son.
- Keith, Robert (1824). Russel, Michael (ed.). An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down To The Year 1688. Edinburgh: Printed for Bell and Bradfute.