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Rev William Carstares
Cenotaph

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Rev William Carstares

Birth
Glasgow City, Scotland
Death
28 Dec 1715 (aged 66)
Scotland
Cenotaph
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland Add to Map
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WILLIAM CARSTARES DD
Minister of this Church, Principal of the University, Chaplain to King William III, Queen Anne and King George I.
Tried in troublous times by imprisonment, torture and exile, he was faithful to the cause of his Church and Country and trusted alike by the Sovereign and the People, was able to guide the policy which effect the revolution of 1688 and the Union of 1707.

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