Life of George Gleig Bishop of Brechin Author:William Walker General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: BISHOP GLEIG. CHAPTER I. -- 1753-1786. Bishop Walker on Bishops Jolly and Gleig -- What the Two Men had in Common -- How they Differed -- Early Life of Gleig -- Arbuthnot School -- King's College, Aberdeen -- Proposal to make him a Professor -- Early Jacobitism -- Beads for Orders -- Is Ordained and Settled at Pittenweem -- Circumstances of the Charge -- Becomes a Contributor to several London Periodicals -- Defends Scotch Bishops in " Gentleman's Magazine" -- Criticises Bishop Skinner's Consecration Sermon -- Consequences. Bishop Walker, who knew both men intimately, expressed his "astonishment" that two "such men as George Gleig and Alexander Jolly, who would have reflected credit on the most splendid Church Establishment," should have " taken their lot in " such " a Society " as the Episcopal Church of Scotland, when " depressed beyond the hope of rising." The fact he thought " creditable to the Church, and creditable to them." It is natural to link together the names and lives of these two eminent men, for the reasons which Bishop Walker assigns (not altogether with strict accuracy), and for others. Both were born in the Stonehaven district, and nearly at the same time. Both became Aberdeen See postea p. 3, note t 182 JOLLY AND GLEIG COMPARED AND CONTRASTED. students and graduates. Both took orders in a Church which was, at the time, all but extinguished by persecution ; both became, and for many years continued, influential rulers in it; both lived to a great age, and died about the same time. Lives that had, ecclesiastically, so much in common, if truly told, and read consecutively, canno...« less