George Learmond

For the West Indian cricketer, see George Learmond (cricketer).

George Learmond (or Learmonth) (c. 1478–1531) was a Scottish Benedictine who was Prior of Pluscarden and almost Bishop of Aberdeen. He was probably born around 1478, graduated Master of Arts from the University of St Andrews in 1498 and maintained links with the university while holding benefices in St Andrews (1498–1503) and Fordoun in Kincardineshire (1503–1509).

Following the resignation of Robert Harwor he was nominated Prior of Pluscarden by King James IV of Scotland in March 1509. As the late Abbot Mark Dilworth observed in Pluscarden Benedictines 129 (Pentecost 2003, pp. 16–17) the monastery enjoyed a certain autonomy and neither the abbot nor chapter of Dunfermline Abbey were involved in Learmonth's election. He held the office for twenty years, having taken the monastic habit, and very little is recorded of his activities; presumably his monastic life was quiet.

It was not to last, however: he was plucked from the cloister on May 20, 1529 when Pope Clement VII appointed him coadjutor and successor to Bishop Gavin Dunbar, although Learmonth predeceased the Bishop of Aberdeen, dying on March 18, 1531.

External links

Lermontov-Learmond; Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov was a descendant of somebody in the Learmonth family https://books.google.com/books?id=tBNAAQAAMAAJ
James Logan. Logan's collections Issue 13 of Publications, Third Spalding Club Aberdeen, Scotland 1941. page 157
‘Sixteenth Century Pluscarden Priory and its World’. The Innes Review, 58.1 (2007) pp. 35-71.
http://www.pluscardenabbey.org/benedictine-pluscarden-i.asp

Bishops of Aberdeen

Bishops of Mortlach	Beóán of Mortlach Donercius Cormac of Mortlach Nechtan of Aberdeen

Pre-Reformation	Nechtan of Aberdeen Edward of Aberdeen Matthew John of Kelso Adam de Kald Matthew the Scot Gilbert de Stirling Radulf de Lamley Peter de Ramsay Richard de Potton Hugh de Benin Henry le Chen Walter Herok Alexander de Kininmund (elder) William de Deyn John de Rait Alexander de Kininmund (younger) Adam de Tyninghame Gilbert de Greenlaw Henry de Lichton Ingram Lindsay Thomas Spens Robert Blackadder William Elphinstone James Ogilvie Robert Forman Alexander Gordon Gavin Dunbar George Learmond William Stewart William Gordon

Church of Scotland	David Cunningham Peter Blackburn Alexander Forbes Patrick Forbes Adam Bellenden David Mitchel Alexander Burnet Patrick Scougal George Haliburton

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