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See also:WODROW, See also:ROBERT (1679-1734) , Scottish historian, was See also:born at See also:Glasgow, being a son of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James 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
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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 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.
End of Article: WODROW, ROBERT (1679-1734)
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