Andrew Cant was a Scottish

Scotland

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 clergyman and scholar, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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 from 1675 to 1685.

He is believed to be the son of the Presbyterian minister and covenanter

Covenanter

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 Andrew Cant

Andrew Cant

Andrew Cant was a Presbyterian minister and leader of the Scottish Covenanters. About 1623 the people of Edinburgh called him to be their minister, but he was rejected by James I. Ten years later he was minister of Pitsligo in Aberdeenshire, a charge which he left in 1638 for that of Newbattle in...

 (1590-1663).. He was a minister

Minister of religion

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 of Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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 during the reign of Charles II

Charles II of England

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, and consequently is assumed to have been an adherent of Episcopacy.

The same person, or perhaps his son, was deprived of his charge in Edinburgh, at the Revolution, and, on 17 October 1722 was consecrated as one of the bishop

Bishop

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s of the disestablished Episcopal Church

Scottish Episcopal Church

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 in Scotland. This individual died in 1728.

He married Anne Burnett, daughter of Sir Thomas Burnet, 1st Baronet of Leys

Burnett Baronets

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, Kincardineshire

Kincardineshire

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.