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ROBERT WODROW (1679-1734)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 768 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:WODROW (1679-1734)  , Scottish historian, was See also:born at See also:Glasgow, being a son of See also:James See also:Wodrow, See also:professor of divinity . He was educated at the university and was librarian from 1691 to 1 7oi . From 1703 till his See also:death, on the 21st of See also:March 1734, he was See also:parish See also:minister at Eastwood, near Glasgow . He had sixteen See also:children, his son See also:Patrick being the " auld Wodrow " of See also: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 See also: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 See also:Robert Burns, D.D., 1807-1808) . Wodrow also wrote a Life (1828) of his See also:father . He See also:left two other See also:works in MS.—See also: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 . 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 See also:Spalding Club in 189o; the latter was published in four volumes by the Maitland Club in 1842-1843 . Wodrow left a great See also:mass of See also:correspondence, three volumes of which, edited by T . M'Crie, appeared in 1843–1844 . 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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