Patrick Scougal 1607-1682
Patrick SCOUGAL 1607-1682
Biographical Note
Patrick Scougal was born in 1607, the son of John Scougal of Scougal, Haddingtonshire. He gained his MA at Edinburgh University in 1624 and became minister of Dairsie, near St Andrews, Fife, in 1636, moving to Leuchars, Fife, in 1645, where in 1650 his second son Henry Scougal was born. His last parochial charge was at Saltoun, Haddingtonshire, 1659 to 1664, when he was appointed to the Bishopric of Aberdeen and Chancellorship of King’s College, Aberdeen. He died in post on 16 February 1682.
Books
After his death just over 1,000 titles owned by Scougal were given to King’s College, and a list of these, a collection kept together, was compiled by the College library around 1700, and again in 1717, this time giving imprints. It is highly likely that this collection also included material collected by his son Henry. Strongest in theology, it also contained books in other subjects, such as science (e.g. Robert Boyle), language and literature (classical and post-1500), philosophy (e.g. Grotius, Spinoza), and history and geography.
Sources
- Aberdeen University Library, MS K111: ‘Catalogus librorum in bibliotheca Collegii Regii Aberdonensis contentorum secundum ordinem alphabeticum,’ c.1700, sections headed ‘Libri Episcopi’.
- Aberdeen University Library, MS K113: ‘Catalogus librorum in Bibliotheca Collegii Regii …’, 1717, sections headed ‘Libri Episcopi’. This catalogue gives imprint details, which the 1700 catalogue does not.
- Mullan, David George ‘Scougal, Patrick (1607-1682), bishop of Aberdeen’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Scott, Hew, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: the Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation. New ed., 7 vols (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1915-1928), I, 392, V, 148 and 222, and VII, 331.
- Information from Murray Simpson.