Row, John (3)
Row, John (1)
a Scottish divine, was born near Sterling about 1526. He was agent of the clergy of Scotland at the Vatican in 1550, and afterwards became a Protestant minister. He died in 1580. He was one of the six ministers who composed the Scottish Confession and First Book of Discipline.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Row, John (2)
a Presbyterian divine, and son of John Row the reformer, was born at Perth in 1568. He studied at the University of Edinburgh, and was minister of Carnock, Fifeshire, from 1592 till 1644. His death took place in 1646. He wrote The Historie of the Kirk of Scotland (1558-1637), which, after lying in MS. for more than 200 years, has recently been twice privately printed, together with a continuation by his sons to 1639 (Edinb. Maitland Club, 1842, 2 vols. 4to; 2d ed. ibid. Wodrow Society, 1842, 4to).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Row, John (3)
a Presbyterian divine and Hebrew scholar, was born at Carnock about 1598, and was the son of the preceding. He became one of the ministers of Aberdeen in 1631, and in 1644 he was chosen moderator of the Provincial Assembly at Aberdeen. He was a Covenanter in the civil war, and in 1652 became principal of King’s College, Aberdeen, but resigned in 1661. He was subsequently a schoolmaster in Aberdeen, but spent his last years in retirement in the parish of Kinellar, near Aberdeen. He was noted and the same may be said of his father and grandfather for an intimate acquaintance with the Hebrew language. His death took place about 1672. He published, Hebraicam Linguoe Institutiones (Glasg. 1634, 12mo): Xibias Hebraica seu Vocabularium, etc. (1644, 12mo): , etc. (Abredon. 1660, 4to). See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.