SCOUGAL, Patrick Bishop of Aberdeen, Right Reverend Mr ¹

   Cause of his death was asthma.¹

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  General Notes:

(at Saltoun in 1659)

"Patrick Scougal, M.A. ; trans. from Leuchars, and adm. 29th Jan. 1659 ; he was one of the Commissioners appointed by Parliament, 28th May 1661, for trying the witches in Samuelston; pres. by Charles II. 4th Oct. 1662 ; promoted to the Bishopric of Aberdeen in 1664 (q.v.).[Reg. Sec. Sig., Lamont's Diary ; Acts Parl., vii.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae

Patrick married Jean WEMYSS before 1654.¹ (Jean WEMYSS was born about 1615.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Patrick Scougal, born 1607, son of Sir John S. of Scougal, Haddingtonshire ; educated at Univ. of Edinburgh ; M.A. (1624); ord. to Dairsie in 1636 ; trans, to Leuchars March 1645 ; to Saltoun 29th Jan. 1659 ; app. to this See by Charles II. 25th Feb. and consecrated (at St Andrews) on Easter Monday 11th April 1664 ; Chancellor of King's College same year ; died of asthma, in the Chanonry, Old Aberdeen, 16th Feb. 1682. An Aberdeenshire tradition describes him as 'big eyed, grey haired, tall, and stooping, and of a very fearful aspect.' He made benefactions to St Machar's Cathedral, the library of King's College, and the Public Hospital of Old Aberdeen. He marr. (1) before 1654, Jean Wemyss : (2) 6th Jan. 1660, Anne Congalton (afterwards Lady Gunsgreen, died Dec. 1696), and had issue - John, Commissary and Provost of Old Aberdeen ; Henry, Professor of Divinity, King's College, born June 1650; James, Lord (Whitehill) of Session, died 23rd Dec. 1702; Katherine (marr. (1) 10th Nov. 1665, William Scrogie, Bishop of Argyll : (2) Patrick Forbes, Bishop of Caithness : (3) Roderick Mackenzie of Kinchullardrum) ; Joanna or Jane (marr. Patrick Sibbald, D.D., Professor of Divinity in Marischal College).\'97 [Dowden's Bishops, 402 ; Monteith's Theatre of Mortality, 128 ; Lauderdale Papers, i., 198 ; Dict. Nat. Biog.. ; Tombst.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 7) ¹

Patrick next married Anne CONGALTON 'Lady Gunsgreen', daughter of William CONGALTON of that Ilk and Margaret BRUCE 'of Kincavil', on 6 January 1660.² (Anne CONGALTON 'Lady Gunsgreen' was born about 1625 and died in December 1696 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Congletoun
Anna
18 / 7 / 1706
Lady Gunsgreen, relict of Patrick Scougal, lord bishop of Aberdeen
Testament Dative and Inventory
Edinburgh Commissary Court
CC8/8/82"

from Wills and Testaments




"Following his first wife's death, on 6 January 1660 he (Patrick Scougal) married Anne Congalton (d. 1696) .... Scougal died of asthma on 16 February 1682 in Aberdeen and was buried in his cathedral. His wife, who survived him by nearly fifteen years, subsequently remarried and became Lady Gunsgreen."

from Dictionary of National Biography ^{2 3}