Robert Pont (1524–1606), Scottish

Scotland

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 reformer, was educated at St. Andrews. In 1562 he was appointed minister at Dunblane

Dunblane

Dunblane is a small cathedral city and former burgh north of Stirling in the Stirling council area of Scotland. The town is situated off the A9 road, on the way north to Perth. Its main landmark is Dunblane Cathedral and the Allan Water runs through the town centre, with the Cathedral and the High...

 and then at Dunkeld

Dunkeld

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; in 1563, Commissioner

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 for Moray

Moray

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, Inverness

Inverness

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 and Banff. Then in succession he became minister of Birnie

Birnie

Birnie may refer to:*Birnie Island, a small uninhabited coral island in the Republic of Kiribati*Birnie Kirk, a Church of Scotland church south of Elgin, in Moray, Scotland*Birnie Loch, a loch in North East Fife, ScotlandPeople...

 (1567), provost

Provost (education)

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 of Trinity College near Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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 (1571), a lord of session

Court of Session

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 (1572), minister of St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh (1573) and at St. Andrews (1581).

Pont was a strenuous champion of ecclesiastical independence, and for protesting against parliament

Parliament of Scotland

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ary interference in church government he was obliged to leave his country. From 1584 to 1586 he was in England

England

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, but returning north he resumed his prominence in church matters and kept it until his death in 1606. His elder son Timothy Pont

Timothy Pont

Timothy Pont was a Scottish topographer, the first to produce a detailed map of Scotland. Pont's maps are among the earliest surviving to show a European country in minute detail, from an actual survey.-Life:...

 (1565?-1614?) was a good mathematician

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, surveyor, and "the first projector of a Scottish atlas

Atlas

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External links

• Short biography from the National Library of Scotland
  National Library of Scotland
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