FOWLER, WILLIAM [SSNE 1514]
- Surname
- FOWLER
- First name
- WILLIAM
- Title/rank
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Region
- EDINBURGH
- Social status
- GENTRY
- Education
- Religion
Text source
T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), p.61. (Kgl. Bibl., Ny kgl. Saml. 681 inn 8(o), fol.79r.; Extracts from the Records of Edinburgh 1403-1589, IV ed. Marwick, pp.543-4, 29/5/1589; Records of the Convention of Royal Burghs I ed. Marwick, no.331, 13/6/1590; Tychonis Brahe Dani Opera Omnia ed. Dreyer VIII, pp.191-3, 239, 334-5, 18/6/(1589), 28/2/(1590), 27/3/1592; see chapter 11). Parson of Hawick, appointed by Edinburgh to go with the embassy to Denmark, spring 1589 in order to remind the ambassadors of the interests of the burghs; visited Denmark again in spring 1590, went to Uraniborg, but Tycho Brahe was absent. Correspondant of Christian Barnekow's, signed Tage Thott's Stammbuch at Edinburgh 16/7/1602.
Service record
- SCOTLAND, DENMARK-NORWAY
- Arrived 1589-01-01
- Departed 1602-12-31
- Capacity BURGH REPRESENTATIVE, purpose COMMERCIAL DIPLOMACY