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