Michael Bruce | |
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Minister of Killinchy | |
Personal details | |
Born | 1635 |
Died | 1693 (aged 58–59) Anwoth, Wigtonshire |
Denomination | Presbyterian |
Spouse |
Jean Bruce (m. 1659) |
Children | James Bruce |
Michael Bruce (1635–1693) was a Scottish Presbyterian minister. He graduated MA at Edinburgh in 1654; was minister of Killinchy, County Down, in 1657; continued to preach, in defiance of the bishop, through 1660; was outlawed in 1664; returned to Scotland in 1666; was sentenced to transportation for field-preaching in July 1668, and imprisoned in London; allowed to return to Killinchy in 1670; driven out by the rebellion in 1688; and was finally minister of Anwoth, Wigtonshire from 1689 until death.