Robert Wodrow

Robert Wodrow
portrait from Eastwood
Personal details
BornApril (or September) 1679[1][2]
Died21 March 1734
DenominationChurch of Scotland
Occupationminister

Robert Wodrow (1679 – 21 March 1734) was a Scottish minister and historian, known as a chronicler and defender of the Covenanters. Robert Wodrow was born at Glasgow, where his father, James Wodrow, was a professor of divinity.[3] Robert was educated at the university and was librarian from 1697 to 1701. From 1703 till his death, he was parish minister at Eastwood, near Glasgow. He had sixteen children, his son Patrick being the "auld Wodrow" of Burns's poem Twa Herds.[4]