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PONT (or KYLPONT), ROBERT (1524–1606)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 62 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PONT (or KYLPONT),
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ROBERT (1524–1606)  , Scottish reformer, was educated at St
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Andrews . In 1562 he was appointed
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minister at
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Dunblane and then at
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Dunkeld; in 1563,
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commissioner for
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Moray,
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Inverness and
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Banff . Then in
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succession he became minister of Birnie (1567),
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provost of Trinity
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College near
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Edinburgh (1571), a
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lord of session (1572), minister of St
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Cuthbert's, Edinburgh (1573) and at St Andrews (1581) .
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Pont was a. strenuous
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champion of ecclesiastical
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independence, and for protesting against
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parliamentary interference in
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church
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government he was obliged to leave his
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country . From 1584 to 1586 he was in
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England, but returning
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north he resumed his prominence in church matters and kept it until his
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death in 16o6 .

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