Rev.Dr. John Burns 1744 - 1839
Rev.Dr. John Burns , Minister of the parish of Barony (Glasgow). "Was minister of the Barony for sixty-nine years; and for twenty-five years of that long period he preached to this congregation in the crypt of the Cathedral--a spectacle which Scott graphically describes in his "Rob Roy." In 1787, Dr. Burns lodged in Castle-pens Land, on the east side of the High Street, and died in 1839, at the advanced age of ninety-five. "
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