Robert Leighton

Robert Leighton (1611-1684) was 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. He studied at Edinburgh. He entered the Church, and became Presbyterian minister at Newbattle in 1641, but resigned in 1653. He was made Principal of Edinburgh University. He reluctantly consented to accept a bishopric, and chose the diocese of Dunblane, but declined all lordship connected with the office. For a time, he was archbishop of Glasgow. In 1674, he retired to England, 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.

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