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ROBERT ROLLOCK (c. 1555-1599)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 471 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:ROLLOCK (c. 1555-1599)  , the first See also:principal of the university of See also:Edinburgh, son of See also:David See also:Rollock of See also:Powis, near See also:Stirling, was See also:born about 1555 . He received his See also:early See also:education at the school of Stirling from See also:Thomas See also:Buchanan, a See also:nephew of See also:George Buchanan, and, after graduating at St See also:Andrews, became a See also:regent there in 1580 . In 1583 he was A C r\ appointed by the Edinburgh See also:town See also:council See also:sole regent of the " town's See also:college " (" Academia See also:Jacobi Sexti," afterwards the university of Edinburgh), and three years later he received from the same source the See also:title of " principal, or first See also:master," and was engaged in lecturing on See also:philosophy . When the See also:staff of the See also:young college was increased by the See also:appointment of additional regents, he assumed with consent of the See also:presbytery the See also:office of See also:professor of See also:theology . From 1587 he also preached regularly in the See also:East See also:Kirk every See also:Sunday at 7 a.m., and in 1596 he accepted one of the eight ministerial charges of the See also:city . He took a prominent See also:part in the somewhat troubled See also:church politics of the See also:day, and distinguished himself by gentleness and tact, as well as ability . He was appointed on several occasions to committees of presbytery and See also:assembly on pressing ecclesiastical business . He was elected See also:moderator of the See also:General Assembly held at See also:Dundee in May 1597 . In 1598 he was translated to the See also:parish church of the Upper Tolbooth, Edinburgh, and immediately thereafter to that of the See also:Grey Friars (then known as the Magdalen Church) . He died at Edinburgh on the 8th of See also:February 1599 . Rollock wrote Commentaries on the Epistles to the See also:Ephesians (1590) and See also:Thessalonians (1598) and See also:Hebrews (16o5), the See also:book of See also:Daniel (1591), the See also:Gospel of St See also:John (1599) and some of the See also:Psalms (1598) ; an See also:analysis of the See also:Epistle to the See also:Romans (1594), and See also:Galatians (1602) ; also Questions and Answers on the See also:Covenant of See also:God (1596), and a See also:Treatise on Effectual Calling (1597) . Soon after his See also:death eleven Sermons (Certain Sermons upon Several Places of the Epistles of See also:Paul, 1599) were published from notes taken by his students .

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Works were edited by W . Gunn for the See also:Wodrow Society (1844-1849) . A See also:Life by George See also:Robertson and See also:Henry Charteris was reprinted by the See also:Bannatyne See also:Club in 1826 . See also the introduction to the Select Works, and See also:Sir See also:Alexander See also:Grant's See also:History of the University of Edinburgh .

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