Archibald Graham

Archibald Graham (1644–1702) was a Scottish prelate from the 17th century who served as the last Church of Scotland Bishop of the Isles. He was nicknamed McIlvernock. Life From the Graham family of Kilbride, he was born in 1644 and educated at Glasgow University graduating MA in around 1660. He became a Church of Scotland minister, and was parson of Rothesay in 1667, becoming Bishop of the Isles in June 1680. From 1682 he also held the additional role as minister of Kingarth. After the Revolution of 1688, all Church of Scotland bishops, including Graham, lost their sees as episcopacy was abolished in Scotland by Act of Parliament in 1690. He died of fever in Edinburgh on 28 June 1702.