David Low (November 1768 – 26 January 1855) was an

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clergyman who served in the Scottish Episcopal Church as the Bishop of Ross (1819–1850), Bishop of Argyll (1819–1846) and

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(1838–1850). Born in Brechin, Scotland in November 1768, he was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen., ''The Bishops of Scotland'', p. 425. He was ordained a deacon and priest in 1789 by

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. Low, presbyter of St John's Episcopal Church, Pittenweem, was unanimously elected Bishop of Ross and of Argyll by the clergy of those dioceses in 1819., ''An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops'', p. 551. He was

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at Stirling on 14 November 1819 by George Gleig, Bishop of Brechin and Primus;

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; and

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, Bishop of Dunkeld and of Dunblane. On the death of Jolly in 1838, Low also became the Bishop of Moray. He resigned the

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of Argyll in 1846, and four years later, resigned the Sees of Moray and Ross on 19 December 1850., ''The Bishops of Scotland'', p. 426. Low died at Pittenweem on 26 January 1855, aged 86, and was buried in a grave on the south-side of St John's Episcopal Church, Pittenweem on 1 February 1855.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Low, David 1768 births 1855 deaths Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Bishops of Ross (Scotland) Bishops of Argyll Bishops of Moray 19th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops