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.

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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