John Row
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For the British poet John Row (born 1947), see John Row (poet).
John Row (1568 - 1646), Scottish ecclesiastical historian, born at Perth, son of John Row, one of the Scottish Reformers, was minister of Carnock in Fife, and a leading opponent of Episcopacy.
His Historie of the Kirk of Scotland, 1558 - 1637, left by him in manuscript, was printed in 1842 for the Wodrow Society. It is an original authority for the period.
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This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
- David Stevenson, ‘Row, John (1568/9–1646)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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