Talk:David Williamson (minister)

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The result was: promoted by Amkgp (talk) 04:31, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that alongside marrying seven times, David Williamson is said to have been the first clergyman in Scotland to own a watch? Source: "His was not a patriarchal age, hence it is somewhat startling to learn that he was married no fewer than seven times. [...] It is recorded of him that he was the first clergyman in Scotland who carried a watch." (Lorimer, George (1915). 'The Early Days of St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh'. William Blackwood & Sons. pp. 48-49.)
  • ALT1:... that David Williamson is said to have been the first clergyman in Scotland to own a watch? Source: "It is recorded of him that he was the first clergyman in Scotland who carried a watch." (Lorimer, George (1915). 'The Early Days of St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh'. William Blackwood & Sons. p. 49.)

Created by CPClegg (talk). Self-nominated at 21:07, 21 December 2020 (UTC).

• Please bold & link the article above! New, long & neutral enuf. The watch hook sort of checks out (AGF on source) but the note casts doubt on it - no one at the time seems actually to have said this. There are plenty of alternatives - transvestite episode in bed with future daughter in law.... and others. Earwig finds nothing. Johnbod (talk) 08:20, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

• Hooks formatted. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 18:07, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

• @CPClegg: New hook needed. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:24, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

• Johnbod I will try to move this along with a new hook since the nominator last edited on January 3.

ALT2 ... that clergyman David Williamson's time as an outlaw is commemorated in the traditional Scottish song "Dainty Davie"? SL93 (talk) 03:10, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Ok, can you quote from the source on that - a better hook imo. Johnbod (talk) 04:12, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Johnbod "In the General Assembly which met for the first time after the Revolution in October 1690, there was probably no more noted member than Mr. David Williamson, the minister of the West Kirk of Edinburgh, the "Dainty Davie" of Scottish song". "His narrow escapes were numerous. Several of these are narrated by Wodrow, who had them from his son John Williamson of Inveresk. Space does not admit of a particular reference to these at present, such as are interested in the subject I would refer to the pages of that delightful book of contemporary gossip, Wodrow's Analecta but no doubt the most singular of them was that recorded in his Memoirs by Captain Creighton, the incidents of which gave rise to the song of " Dainty Davy," the air of which is familiar to all lovers of Scotch music, though the words are now — perhaps as well — almost forgotten." SL93 (talk) 04:24, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

• Thanks - GTG. Johnbod (talk) 04:43, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
• Approving Alt 2. --evrik ^(talk) 22:13, 20 January 2021 (UTC)