Alexander Arbuthnot (poet)

This article is about the Scottish poet. For his contemporary and namesake, the Edinburgh printer who produced the first edition of George Buchanan's History of Scotland in 1582, see Alexander Arbuthnot (printer).

Alexander Arbuthnot
Born1538 (1538)
Aberdeenshire
Died16 October 1583(1583-10-16) (aged 44–45)
Resting placeKing's College Chapel, Aberdeen, Scotland
EducationUniversity of St Andrews University of Bourges
OccupationsPoet, clergyman and academic
MovementScottish Reformation

Alexander Arbuthnot (1538–16 Oct 1583) was a Scottish ecclesiastic poet, "an eminent divine, and zealous promoter of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland". He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (the highest position in the Church of Scotland) in both 1573 and 1577.

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