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FAIRFOUL,
a seemingly contradictory surname, derived from Fair fowl, those who bear
it carrying three parrots or papingoes in their arms as relative to the
name. In June 1662, Andrew Fairfowl, the son of John Fairfowl of the town
of Anstruther, was consecrated archbishop of Glasgow. He had first been
chaplain to the earl of Rothes, and next minister of North Leith,
afterwards at Dunse. It is stated that Charles the Second having heard him
preach several times when in Scotland in 1650, on his restoration,
inquired after Mr. Fairfowl, and unsolicited preferred him to the see of
Glasgow, on a vacancy occurring in November 1661. He did not, however,
long enjoy his new dignity, for he sickened the very day of riding the
parliament in November 1663, and died in a few days thereafter, when he
was buried in the abbey church of Holyroodhouse. |
