John Scot, Commonplace Book, 1620-1644 1620-1644

St Leonard's College St Andrews (Scotland) 1512-1747

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John Scot of Scotstarvit

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John Scot of Scotstarvit (1586-1670), Lord Scotstarvit, was a judge and writer, and an important patron of Scottish literary and scholarly works. He studied at St Andrews University, bought the lands of Tarvit in Fife and called himself Scot of Scotstarvit. He was interested in scholarly pursuits, writing Latin verse and endowing a chair of Latin at St Leonard’s College, St Andrews, and organising subscriptions to the college library. He was brother in law of the poet William Drummo...

Scot Sir John 1586-1670

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