Andrew Honeyman

Andrew Honeyman or Honyman (died 1676)^[1] was a Scottish^[2] Anglican^[3] priest: he was Bishop of Orkney from 1664 until 1676.^[4]

He was the son of David Honeyman of Pitairchney, a baker of St Andrews. He was a graduate of the University of St Andrews in 1635, and was presented to the parish of Ferry-Port on Craig in 1641.^[5]

Answering Naphtali, a Covenanter pamphlet of 1667, Honeyman became involved in a polemic exchange with James Stewart, one of the presumed authors.^[6] He was injured in the arm in the assassination attempt made by James Mitchell on James Sharp in 1668.^[7]

Notes

1. "Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity" Houston,R.A: Cambridge, CUP, 1985 ISBN 0521890888
2. ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
3. "The history of the Church of Scotland : from the Reformation to the present time" Thomas,S: London, John Lendrum, 1843
4. Armadale
5. Hew Scott (1869). Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ: pt. 1. Synod of Lothian and Tweedale. pt. 2. Synods of Merse and Teviotdale, Dumfries, and Galloway. W. Paterson. p. 427. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
6. Andrew Hiscock (2007). Mighty Europe 1400-1700: Writing an Early Modern Continent. Peter Lang. pp. 38–9. ISBN 978-3-03911-074-2. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
7. Mullan, David George. "Sharp, James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25211. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)