Andrew Fairfoul was the first post-Restoration

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 Archbishop of Glasgow

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, from 1661 until his death in November 1663. He became Chancellor

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 of Glasgow University after his consecration

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 as Archbishop.

Fairfoul was the son of a minister from Anstruther

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 and studied at the University

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 of St. Andrews. He became chaplain

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 to the Earl of Rothes

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 and then Minister of North Leith

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 and later of Dunse. He was nominated for the Archbishopric by King Charles II

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 and consecrated in London

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 on 15th December 1661.
On 19th April 1662 Fairfoul made his public entry into Glasgow accompanied by the Earl of Glencairn

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, the Lord Chancellor of Scotland

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 who was his predecessor as Chancellor of the University. The University's historian James Coutts

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 refers to him as "a man of boisterous mirth and careless life",but quotes the recollection of Principal Robert Baille that Fairfoul preached "soberly and well" on his first Sunday in the city. The Earl, the Archbishop and their entourage dined at the University the day after this first sermon,and the meal is said to have cost more than £200.

The Archbishop was heavily involved in energetic attempts by the Episcopalian

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 authorities to root out Covenanter

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s and other dissenters. A committee of the Privy Council

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met in the fore-hall of the University on 1st October 1662 to address the problem of ministers refusing to recognise the rights of patrons and bishops to present ministers,and many ministers were removed from their parishes.

Fairfoul died in November 1663 on his way to Edinburgh and was buried in the Abbey Church at Holyrood.