Craighead, Robert, Jr

Craighead, Robert, Jr.

an Irish Presbyterian minister, was born at Castle Finn, County Donegal, in 1684. He took his degree of A.M. at the University of Glasgow in 1702. studied divinity at Edinburgh and Leyden, and in 1709 was ordained colleague to Mr. Iredell, in Capel Street, or Mary's Abbey, Dublin, where he died, July 30, 1738. Both he and his father were brilliant and effective workers on behalf of the Irish Presbyterians. See Reid, Hist. of the Presb. Church in Ireland.