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Wishart, George c.1513-1546
Scottish reformer
He was born in Pitarrow, Kincardineshire. As a schoolmaster in Montrose (1538), he incurred a charge of heresy for teaching the Greek New Testament, and he then went to Cambridge, where he met the reformer Hugh Latimer. The next few years he spent on the Continent, and in 1543 accompanied a commission sent to Scotland by Henry VIII to negotiate a marriage contract between his infant son, Prince Edward (the future Edward VI) and Mary, Queen of Scots. He preached the Lutheran doctrine of justification in several places, but, at the insistence of Cardinal David Beaton, he was arrested in 1546, and burned at St Andrews on 1 March. John Knox was first inspired by Wishart.
Bibliography: James William Baird, Thunder Over Scotland: The Life of George Wishart, Scottish Reformer, 1513-1546 (1982)
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