DOUGLAS, Alexander Bishop of Moray, Right Reverend Mr ^{1 2 3}

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  General Notes:

(at Keith in 1580)
"ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, M.A. min. in 1580; trans, to Elgin in 1581."

(at Elgin in 1581)
"ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, M.A. ; trans, from Keith and adm. in 1581 ; app. Bishop of Moray (q.v.) 30th Nov. 1602, and consecrated 15th March 1611."

(at St Andrew's Lhanbryd in 1581)
"ALEXANDER DOUGLAS, M.A. ; held this parish in conjunction with Elgin from 1581 to about 1614."



"Alexander Douglas, minister of Elgin, was promoted to the see of Moray in the year 1606, but as King James had bestowed the temporalities of the diocese on Alexander Lindsay, Lord Spynie, he was under the necessity of buying them back, along with the Palace of Spynie, as an endowment to the Bishoprick. The revenues and lands had been so dilapidated by Patrick Hepburn, the last Popish Bishop, that little remained for his Protestant
successor. The new Bishop was a prudent, judicious, and religious person, and was much respected ; and having the confidence of his brethren in the ministry, the affairs of the diocese were conducted in his time in a peaceable and orderly manner. The Cathedral having gone to ruin, the Parish Keith's Bishops, Church of St. Giles was used as the Cathedral Church of the diocese during the entire period when Episcopacy was the established religion of Scotland. Bishop Douglas died at Elgin in May, 1623, and was buried in the south aisle of
the Church of St. Giles, in a vault built by his widow, who likewise erected a handsome monument over his burial
place."

from Annals of Elgin ^{2 3}

Alexander married Mary INNES, daughter of Robert INNES 19th of that Ilk and Elizabeth ELPHINSTONE.^{1 2} (Mary INNES was born about 1587.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Robert Laird of Innes, as said is, marryed Dame Anne Elphinstoun, daughter to Alexander Lord Elphinstoun Lord High Theasurer, by whom he had Sir Robert Innes who succeeded him and Sir John Innes of Cromy, his second son and father to Sir Robert of Muirtoun, and three daughters, married to the Laird of Guthre, George Monro of Miltoun, and Bishop Douglass."

from Familie of Innes

Note: Alexander Elphinstone was the brother of Elizabeth, not her father.

"Monteith states that Bishop Douglas married for a second wife Mary Innes, daughter of Robert Innes of that Ilk."

from Annals of Elgin ^{1 2}