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Gavin Douglas

Died in 1522

Gavin Douglas was born around 1474 at Tantallon Castle, the younger son of one of the most powerful men in the kingdom. He studied at St Andrews, became around 1501 provost of a collegiate church in Edinburgh, then bishop of Dunkeld in 1516 after a struggle during which his rival occupied the palace. Until the battle of September 1513, he divided his time between his duties and letters; after the disaster, he gave himself entirely to public affairs and wrote no more. He died of the plague in London, in exile, in September 1522.

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