John Knox
Early life
Many of the details of Knox\'s early life are unclear. His place of birth is not known for certain, though Giffordgate, a suburb of the burgh of Haddington, East Lothian (16 miles/26 km east of Edinburgh), is the generally accepted location. He may have been born in either 1513 or 1514, though some sources favour 1505.
His father, William Knox of Haddingtonshire, had fought at the Battle of Flodden; his mother\'s maiden name was Sinclair. The young Knox received his education via the Scottish Church, which was regarded as \"liberal\" when compared with the pre-reformation Catholic standards of the day.
The uncertainty about Knox\'s early life is such that it is not even known at which university he studied, since the dates and time he spent at college are uncertain. He certainly studied under the celebrated John Mair (or John Major), a native, like Knox, of East Lothian and one of the greatest scholars of his time. Mair was at the University of Glasgow in......
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