James Carmichael | |
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| Church | Haddington |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1542/3 |
| Died | 1628 (aged 66–68) |
| minister of Haddington | |
| In office 25 August 1570 – 1584[1] | |
| schoolmaster of Haddington Grammar now Knox Academy | |
| In office 16 April 1572 – 15 November 1576[1] | |
| minister of Haddington including constant Moderator of the Presbytery of Haddington 1606-1628 and compliler of the Acts of Assembly 1592-1595 | |
| In office 1587–1628[1] | |
James Carmichael (1542/3–1628) was the Church of Scotland minister and an author known for a Latin grammar published at Cambridge in September 1587 and for his work revising the Second Book of Discipline and the Acts of Assembly. In 1584, Carmichael was forced to seek shelter in England along with the Melvilles and others. Andrew Melville called him "the profound dreamer." Robert Wodrow said that "a great strain of both piety and strong learning runs through his letters and papers." Dr. Laing says there is every probability that " The Booke of the Universall Kirk " was compiled by Carmichael.[2] The James Carmichaell collection of proverbs in Scots was published by Edinburgh University in 1957 which includes some proverbs also collected by David Ferguson.