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alexander burnet george haliburton 16 february 1682 11 april 1664 , st andrews haddingtonshire aberdeen bishop of aberdeen bishop diocese of aberdeen 1664 & ndash ; 1682 1607 patrick scougal.jpg patrick scougal
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patrick scougal

patrick scougal -lrb- 1607 -- 1682 -rrb- was a 17th-century scottish churchman .
a native of haddingtonshire -lrb- east lothian -rrb- , and cousin of the painter john scougal , in 1624 he graduated from the university of edinburgh as master of arts .
in 1636 , he became a minister of dairsie parish , fife , moving on to leuchars in 1645 and then to saltoun , near edinburgh , in 1659 .
he refused an offer to become professor of divinity at edinburgh university in 1662 .
in this period , scougal showed himself to be an extremely religious ideologue , preaching against papists and playing a leading role in the national witchhunt of the 1660s .
however , his views on episcopacy became clear when in early 1664 he was offered and accepted the post of bishop of aberdeen .
perhaps because of his known and well-established religious fervour , hostility to scougal 's newly shown pro-episcopacy sentiments was comparatively muted .
in the same year , scougal became chancellor of king 's college , aberdeen .
scougal took an active role in the suppression of quakerism and was part of a prosecution of james gordon , the parson of banchory-devenick , who had written the catholic-leaning theological tract called `` the reformed bishop '' -lrb- 1679 -rrb- .
scougal was also charitable , and undertook many charitable deeds , including raising money for two polish protestant students .
when he died -lrb- aged seventy-three -rrb- of asthma on 16 february 1682 , he left much of his wealth to the hospital of old aberdeen , king 's college library and aberdeen cathedral .
scougal married firstly , margaret wemyss , and by her had five children , including the famous minister henry scougal .
his second wife was anna , daughter of william congalton of that ilk , widow of robert lauder of gunsgreen -lrb- near eyemouth , berwickshire -rrb- .
bishop scougall was interred in aberdeen cathedral .
his monument , a mural tomb on the south-west wall of the nave , is a notable , if slightly naïve example of 17th century scottish neo-classical design , including a ` portrait ' of scougal -lrb- see above -rrb- , and a rich array of symbolic ornament .
