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Forever in John Knox's debt
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Imagine a museum founded by John Knox, a fantasy certainly, but
all the same there exists a remote connection. Edinburgh University
has a major portrait collection and in it there is a portrait of
Knox.
There is every reason to suppose that the portrait has been there
since the university was founded in 1583. Knox had died 11 years
earlier but as the leader of the Scottish Reformation, he had
promoted the idea of universal education. Edinburgh University was
founded in that spirit by the city under the patronage of James VI.
The university's portrait of Knox is one of a collection of ...
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