First Name:

Alexander

Last Name:

Henderson

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

1646

Inscription:

"To the sacred memory of Mr. Alexander Henderson, chaplain to the King, minister at Edinburgh and primer of the college there: who was a scholar at St. Andrew's College there and a bountiful enlarger and patron thereof: who was a most diligent defender of the freedom and discipline of the Kirk, against the prelates raging by fraud and tyranny; a suppressor of superstition, as well as of the undergrowing secretaries; the maintainer and most constant asserter of religion, and the purest worship of God: upon which, when he had laid out himself with all care and thoughtlessness, and had endured daily labours, both in his own country, and in the neighbouring kingdom of England, profitable to the Kirk, and glorious to himself, he gave up the ghost, 19th August 1646, and of his age 63."

Allegiance:

Scots Covenanter

Condition Description:

Sections of sandstone inscription eroded. Bullet strikes all over memorial after being used as target practice by soldiers after the Restoration.

Memorial Notes:

Henderson was one of the co-authors of the National Covenant and the main author of the Solemn League and Covenant. Commissioner to Charles I, Partially restored 1689.

Submitted by Warwick Louth