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2 unusual facts about Bishop of Aberdeen


John Scougal

He was a cousin to Patrick Scougal (died 1682), Bishop of Aberdeen, John Scougal is said to have been born at Leith, where his father had a residence, and where several of his works were still in the Town Hall in the nineteenth century.

Robert Blackadder

Robert Blackadder was a medieval Scottish cleric, diplomat and politician, who was abbot of Melrose, bishop-elect of Aberdeen and bishop of Glasgow; when the last was elevated to archiepiscopal status in 1492, he became the first ever archbishop of Glasgow.


George Learmond

George Learmond (or Learmonth) (c. 1478–1531) was a Scottish Benedictine who was Prior of Pluscarden and almost Bishop of Aberdeen.


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George Learmond

It was not to last, however: he was plucked from the cloister on May 20, 1529 when Pope Clement VII appointed him colleague and successor to Bishop Gavin Dunbar, although Learmonth predeceased the Bishop of Aberdeen, dying on March 18, 1531.