Robert Keith (historian)


Robert Keith

Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church
ChurchScottish Episcopal Church
Installed1743
Term ended1757
PredecessorThomas Rattray
SuccessorRobert White
Orders
Ordination16 August 1710 (Deacon),
26 May 1713 (Priest)
Consecration18 June 1727 (Bishop)
by James Gadderar
Personal details
Born7 February 1681
Died20 January 1757 (aged 75)
Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
BuriedCanongate Churchyard, Edinburgh, Scotland
DenominationAnglicanism
ParentsAlexander Keith and Marjory Keith (née Arbuthnot)
SpouseIsobel Cameron
ChildrenTwo daughters

Bishop Robert Keith (1681–1757) was a Scottish Episcopal bishop and historian.