Henry Guthry

Henry Guthrie (c. 1600 – 1676) was a Scottish historian and cleric who served as the Bishop of Dunkeld from 1665 to 1676.

Life

The son of Elizabeth Small and the Perthshire minister Henry Guthrie, he was born around 1600 in Coupar Angus, a town in central Scotland, in the modern region of Perth and Kinross. He graduated from the University of St Andrews in 1621, studying theology. He later served as a chaplain to the family of the Earl of Mar.

He became minister of Guthrie in 1624, and was promoted by King Charles I to the Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling in 1632. He took an ambiguous role in the Covenanter Wars and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. On 3 October, 1641, he preached before the king at the abbey church of Edinburgh. He also wrote and left to posterity, his Observations. Although circulating in his own day, they were not formally published until 1702. Three notebooks of his Observations are held at the University of Edinburgh.