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Biographical Sketch
of history may be traced. At the time of the Reformation, John Dury made his escape and became an exhorter and later a Presbyterian minister, and devoted adherent of John Knox.
He married Marion, daughter of Sir John Majoribanks, provost of Edinburgh, and the second of their three sons, all in the Presbyterian ministry, was Robert,[1] the father of our John.
The life of an earnest and con-
- ↑ There is no real reason to doubt this relationship, although James Melville, who was son-in-law of John Durie, and an intimate friend and companion of Robert Durie, never explicitly mentions it.—Dictionary of National Biography.
