Robert Echlin (bishop)

Robert Echlin (1576 – 17 July 1635) was a Scottishman who became the Church of Ireland Bishop of Down and Connor from 1612 to 1635. He obtained his Presbytery Degree from St Andrews in Scotland and was made Minister for Inverkeithing.

He was the youngest son of Henry Echlin (1546- ) and his wife, Grizel Colville (1541–1607), born at Pittrado, Fife in 1576.

After his death he was buried at Templecraney, Portaferry in County Down. An account of Robert Echlin's life and background is given in an earlier book but some of this is claimed as inaccurate by J. R. Echlin's later work.

Echlin married Jane Seton of Lathrisk, Fife in 1600 and had two sons and four daughters:

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