ROBERT

See also:

• ROBERT WODROW (1679-1734)

WODROW (1679-1734)  , Scottish historian, was born at Glasgow, being a son of James Wodrow, professor of divinity . He was educated at the university and was librarian from 1691 to 1 7oi . From 1703 till his death, on the 21st of March 1734, he was parish minister at Eastwood, near Glasgow . He had sixteen children, his son Patrick being the " auld Wodrow " of Burns's poem Twa Herds." His great work, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, was published in two volumes in 1721-1722 (new ed. with a life of Wodrow by Robert Burns, D.D., 1807-1808) . Wodrow also wrote a Life (1828) of his father . He left two other works in MS.—Memoirs of Reformers and Ministers of the Church of Scotland, and Analecta: or Materials for a History of Remarkable Providences, mostly relating to Scotch Ministers and Christians . Of the former, two volumes were published by the Maitland Club in 1834-1845 and one volume by the New Spalding Club in 189o; the latter was published in four volumes by the Maitland Club in 1842-1843 . Wodrow left a great mass of correspondence, three volumes of which, edited by T . M'Crie, appeared in 1843–1844 . The Wodrow Society, founded in Edinburgh to perpetuate his memory, was in existence from 1841 to 1847, several works being published under its auspices .