JOHN ROW

JOHN ROW (1525-1580), a Scottish reformer; graduated LL.D. in Padua; came over from the Catholic Church in 1558, and two years later helped to compile the "First Book of Discipline"; settled as a minister in Perth, and was four times Moderator of the General Assembly. His son, John Row (1568-1646), was minister of Carnock, near Dunfermline, and author of an authoritative "History of the Kirk of Scotland".