Andrew Honeyman

Andrew Honeyman or Honyman (died 1676)[1] was a Scottish[2] priest: he was Bishop of Orkney from 1664 until 1676.[3]

He was the son of David Honeyman of Pitairchney, a baker of St Andrews. He was a graduate of the University of St Andrews in 1635, and was presented to the parish of Ferry-Port on Craig in 1641.[4]

Answering Naphtali, a Covenanter pamphlet of 1667, Honeyman became involved in a polemic exchange with James Stewart, one of the presumed authors.[5] He was injured in the arm in the assassination attempt made by James Mitchell on James Sharp in 1668.[6][7]

Family

He married Sept. 1642, Euphan (died 27 March 1668), daugh. of Samuel Cunningham, min. of Ferry-Port-on-Craig, and had issue – John ; Robert, ancestor of the Honyman Baronets of Armadale, died 9 December 1679 ; Euphan (married 8 April 1669, Harry Graham of Breckness), died 17 Oct. 1686 ; Ann ; Margaret (married 27 November 1673, William Craigie of Gairsay).

His descendants included William Honyman, Lord Armadale.[8]

Bibliography
  • The Seasonable Case of Submission to the Church (Government as now re-established by Law (Edinburgh, 1662)
  • A Survey of the Insolent and Infamous Libel entitled " Naphtali," 2 parts (Edinburgh, 1668-9)
  • Bourignonism displayed in a Discovery and Brief Refutation of . . . Errors maintained by Antonia Bourignon

[anon.] (Aberdeen, 1710).

  • Craven's Scots Worthies, 127
  • Catalog. Edinburgh Univ. Library, ii., 411.

Notes
  • born 1619, son of David H. of Pitairchney, baker in St Andrews, and brother of Robert Honeyman, D.D., min. of St Andrews *educated at Univ. of St Andrews ; M.A.(1635);
  • adm. assistant at Ferry-Port-on-Craig before 6 Oct. 1640;
  • trans, to Second Charge, St Andrews, 24 November 1642 ;
  • trans, to First Charge 2 Oct. 1662 ;
  • promoted from Archdeaconry of St Andrews, app. to this See 14 January and 7 March, and consecrated (at St Andrews)

11 April 1664.

  • While in Edinburgh, and in company of Archbishop Sharp, on the evening of 11 July 1668, and stepping into a coach at the top of Blackfriars Wynd, he was shot with a poisoned bullet intended for the Archbishop, by James Mitchell, which ultimately caused his death;

died at Kirkwall 21 Feb. 1676.

  1. "Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity" Houston,R.A: Cambridge, CUP, 1985 ISBN 0521890888
  2. "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
  3. Armadale
  4. Hew Scott (1869). Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ: pt. 1. Synod of Lothian and Tweedale. pt. 2. Synods of Merse and Teviotdale, Dumfries, and Galloway. W. Paterson. p. 427.
  5. Andrew Hiscock (2007). Mighty Europe 1400-1700: Writing an Early Modern Continent. Peter Lang. pp. 38–9. ISBN 978-3-03911-074-2.
  6. Mullan, David George. "Sharp, James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25211. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. Scott, Hew (1915). Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae : the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation (Vol. 10 ed.). Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. p. 354. Retrieved 9 March 2019. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  8. Grants Old and New Edinburgh vol.2 p.259
Religious titles
Preceded by
Thomas Sydserf		 Bishop of Orkney
1664 –1676		 Succeeded by
Murdoch MacKenzie


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