January 1720-1727 A.D. John
Fullarton—Non-juring Scottish Episcopal Bishop of Edinburgh
John Fullarton
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Origins
Fullarton was the son of James
McCloy, alias Fullarton, of Ballochindryan and Jean Stewart, the daughter of
John Stewart of Ascog. His grandfather is thought to have been Duncan, or
Donald McCloy, minister at Kilmodan between at least 1609 and 1629, who was still alive as late as 1659, when
he received a grant from the Synod of Argyll because of his poverty.
Career
Fullarton obtained the degree
of Master of Arts from Glasgow University in 1665. Following his ordination, he was minister
at Kilmodan from 1669 to 1684 and at Paisley between 1684 and 1689, whence he was ejected at the Revolution. Robert Wodrow recorded in 1703 that Fullarton was present with
other Episcopal clergy at a service in Glasgow to commemorate the execution of Charles I, and he also preached there. The connection with
Paisley had not been broken, and Fullarton was at the deathbed of the young
Lady Dundonald in Paisley in 1710, and later celebrated Holy Communion for the widowed Earl in Paisley Abbey, "the first instance of Communion at Yule so
openly celebrated in this country," according to Wodrow. By 1712, Wodrow
considered Fullarton to be "the man of that [Episcopalian] party in most
repute in this country."
Episcopate
Following his election,
Fullarton appears to have made strong protestations of loyalty to the Old Pretender (in exile) and to have had numerous dealings with
the Old Pretender’s agent, George Lockhart. (According to Thomas Stephen: “The hope of the
restoration of the old dynasty was strong in the minds of the bishops…”) The Scottish Magazine and Churchman’s Review summed up Fullarton’s episcopate in this way:
“...he greatly exerted himself to accommodate the differences which existed
among the clergy respecting usages, and endeavoured also to restore a proper
distribution of Episcopal superintendence, for which, however, the state of the
Church was not then ripe.”
Family
Fullarton married, first, Anna
Haldane (who died 28 July 1679), secondly, Barbara Hamilton and, thirdly,
Isobel Sinclair. His son by his second wife, John Fullarton of Greenhall, who
did not long survive him, was a Surveyor of Customs.
Sources
David M.
Bertie, Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000 (Continuum International, 2000)
Thomas
Stephen, The
History of the Church of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Present Time,
Vol. IV (John
Lendrum, London, 1845)
The
Scottish Magazine and Churchman's Review (R. Lendrum & Co, Edinburgh, 1849)
Robert
Wodrow, Analecta (1843); Correspondence (1842); Early
Letters (1937)
Notes
1.
Jump up^ per Bertie; other sources suggest early May 1727.
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