Philip Hislop (1566?-1595)

Philip Hislop (1566?-1595) began work as regent to the First Year (or 'Bajan') class at Edinburgh University in October 1587. He took over regenting duties from Principal Robert Rollock, who was appointed Professor of Theology in November 1587. Hislop had himself just graduated from Edinburgh University, where he had been regented by Rollock from 1583 to 1587. He initiated a tradition whereby regents were generally chosen from recent Edinburgh graduates. Under the regenting system, Hislop remained with the 1587 intake throughout their four-year Master of Arts degree, tutoring them in all subjects. Hislop became Minister of Inveresk in 1595, but died in the following year.

Sources

• Thomas Craufurd, History of the University of Edinburgh, from 1580 to 1646: To Which is Prefixed the Charter Granted to the College by James VI of Scotland, in 1582 (Edinburgh: Printed by A. Neill & Co., 1808)
• Sir Alexander Grant, The Story of the University of Edinburgh during its First Three Hundred Years, 2 vols (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1884)
• Hew Scott, Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, vol. I (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1915)