WARDLAW, Henry Bishop of St Andrews and Founder St Andrews University, 1
- Born: About 1360
- Died: 6 April 1440, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland 1
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General Notes:
"Wardlaw, Henry, a learned and pious prelate, founder of the university of St. Andrews, and bishop of that see, was the second son of Sir Andrew Wardlaw of Torry, Fifeshire, and nephew of Walter Wardlaw, bishop of Glasgow, who, in 1381, was created a cardinal by Pope Urban VI. Having received the usual education of one intended for the church, it is supposed at the university of Paris, he was appointed by his uncle rector of Kilbride, and in virtue thereof became precentor in the cathedral church of Glasgow. He afterwards went to Avignon, and while there was in 1444 preferred by Pope Benedict XIII to the vacant see of St. Andrews. On his return to his native country soon after, bearing the additional title of the pope's legate for Scotland, his first care was to reform the lives of the clergy, who had become notorious for their licentiousness and profligacy. In May 1410, Bishop Wardlaw founded the university of St. Andrews, the first institution of the kind in Scotland. It was established on the model of the college of Paris, for teaching all manner of arts and sciences, for which, in the year following, he procured a confirmation from the Pope, having dispatched one Henry Ogilvie for the purpose."
from Electric Scotland 1
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