David Lindsay (bishop of Edinburgh)

David Lindsay
Bishop of Edinburgh
Church	Church of Scotland
See	Diocese of Edinburgh
In office	1634–1638
Predecessor	William Forbes
Successor	Vacant (until 1662)
Orders
Consecration	23 November 1619 (as Bishop of Brechin)
Personal details
Born	c. 1575 Probably Angus, Scotland
Died	1641 England
Previous post	Bishop of Brechin (1619–1634)

David Lindsay (died December 1641) was a Church of Scotland minister and prelate active in the seventeenth-century.

Born around 1575, he was a son of Colonel John Lindsay, laird of Edzell in Angus, and graduated with a Master of Arts from the University of St Andrews in 1593. He became master first of the grammar school at Montrose, and then in 1597 of Dundee Grammar School, holding also from 1599 the ministry of Guthrie parish, and from 1605 of Dundee.

Next year, however, he resigned his mastership, while petitioning the town council to "take consideration of his estate, and that he may have ane sufficient moyan quhairupon he may lieve as ane honest man", but it was not till 1620 that he obtained a full payment of the augmentation then voted to his stipend.

Meanwhile, in 1616 he became a member of the high commission; in 1617 he defended at St Andrews, before James VI, some theses about "the power of kings and princes", and in 1618 supported the "king's articles" at the Perth general assembly, advancing similar arguments in the following years.

He was rewarded with the bishopric of Brechin, being consecrated at St Andrews on 23 November 1619. He said to have contributed to the inscriptions in Brechin Cathedral. On 18 June 1633 he crowned Charles I at Holyrood.

He was admitted to the Privy Council of Scotland on 31 July 1634. He lived on at Dundee until 16 September, when he was translated to the bishopric of Edinburgh, and made one of the lords of exchequer.

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