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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: James Beaton (1473-1539) |
 | | at St. Andrews, 1539, was the sixth and youngest son of John Beaton of Balfour, in Fife. |
 | | A few months after the second marriage of James (to Mary of Guise) the primate got his nephew, David Cardinal Beaton, appointed his coadjutor with right of succession and he died in the autumn of 1539 in his castle at St. Andrews. |
 | | There is, however, evidence that during both his thirteen years' tenure of the See of Glasgow and the seventeen years during which he held the primacy, he concerned himself closely with both the material and spiritual interests of the two dioceses, and in particular with the advancement of learning. |
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