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Tour Scotland Photograph Archbishop James Beaton Kate Kennedy Procession St Andrews
Tour Scotland photograph of Archbishop James Beaton in the Kate Kennedy Procession in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Dr. James Beaton, or Bethune, 1473 t0 1539, was a Scottish church leader, the uncle of Dr. David Cardinal Beaton and the Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland. He was the sixth and youngest son of John Beaton of Balfour, in Fife. He graduated as Master of Arts at St. Andrews University in 1493, was appointed Precentor of Dornoch Cathedral, Diocese of Caithness, in 1497 and in 1503 was appointed Provost of the Collegiate Church of Bothwell. In 1504 he became Prior of Whithorn and Abbot of Dunfermline and in 1505 was made Lord High Treasurer of Scotland. Archbishop James Beaton died in the autumn of 1539 in his castle at St. Andrews. The St Andrews University Student portraying Archbishop James Beaton today was Edward Kneale.
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