Arnot, Robert, Dd

Arnot, Robert, D.D.

a Scotch clergyman, was licensed to preach in 1769; presented to the living of Ceres in 1770; elected presbytery clerk in 1777; resigned in 1792; was appointed professor of divinity in the new college of St. Andrews in 1799; minister of Kingsbarns in 1800, but opposed on account of already holding one important office; the General Assembly of 1800 approved of the double appointment. He died July 2, 1808, aged sixty-three years. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:444, 478.