David Panter

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David Panter
Senior posting

Denomination	Roman Catholic Church
See	Diocese of Ross
Title	Bishop of Ross
Period in office	1545–1558
Consecration	1552
Predecessor	Robert Cairncross
Successor	Henry Sinclair
Religious career
Previous post	Coadjutor of Cambuskenneth (1534–1549) Commendator of St Mary's Isle (1536–1547) Commendator of Cambuskenneth (1549–1558)
Personal
Date of birth	unknown
Place of birth	unknown
Date of death	October 1, 1558
Place of death	Stirling, Scotland

David Panter [also written Painter, or Paniter] (d. 1558), Scottish diplomat, clerk and bishop of Ross, was the illegitimate son of Patrick Panter, secretary to James IV; his mother was Margaret Crichton, illegitimate daughter of William Crichton, 3rd Lord Crichton and widow countess of Rothes.^[1]

He and his sister were legitimised on August 13, 1513.^[2] He was a university graduate, probably at the University of St. Andrews.^[2]

On April 8, 1536, he received crown nomination to the papacy for provision to become commendator St Mary's Isle in Galloway; in 1549 he became successor to Alexander Mylne as commendator of the abbey of Cambuskenneth, for which he had been coadjutor (designated successor) since August 7, 1534.^[3] On December 23, 1545, he obtained a crown provision to the abbey of Fearn, though that was unsuccessful.^[4]

Employed by Mary of Guise, he was in France in February 1542 on some unknown errand, and on March 31, 1543, was sent thither with Sir John Campbell of Lundie on a mission to the French king. He returned in June with John Hamilton, abbot of Paisley, in time to assist Cardinal Beaton's opposition to the English matrimonial schemes of the English court. In 1543 he became secretary to James V.

The letters of the English ambassadors, preserved in Sadler's Papers, and George Buchanan's bitter criticism testify to the strength of his influence on behalf of France. In December he was ordered by the governor to deliver back, according to custom, the badge of knighthood of the Golden Fleece to the Emperor Charles V.

In 1545 he became bishop of Ross, and in May of that year was sent on a mission to the king of France, the emperor, and Mary of Hungary. He was abroad for seven years. On his return, in 1552, he received consecration to his bishopric at Jedburgh, before a brilliant assembly of the Scottish nobles. He died, according to Holinshed, at Stirling on October 1, 1558, and was succeeded in the bishopric by Henry Sinclair.

[edit] Notes

^ Gould, "Panter, David (d. 1558)", contradicting the earlier Dictionary of National Biography, G. G. Smith, "Panter, David (d 1558), bishop of Ross", article which stated he was the "son of David Panter, who was brother of Patrick Panter [q.v.] . His mother was Margaret Crichtoun ...".
^ ^a ^b Gould, "Panter, David (d. 1558)".
^ Gould, "Panter, David (d. 1558)"; Watt & Shead, Heads, pp. 27, 196.
^ Watt & Shead, Heads, p. 82.

[edit] References

This article incorporates text from the Dictionary of National Biography (1895)

Dowden, John, The Bishops of Scotland, ed. J. Maitland Thomson, (Glasgow, 1912)
Gould, J. A., "Panter, David (d. 1558)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 6 Oct 2007
Smith, G. G., "Panter, David (d 1558), bishop of Ross", in Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford, 1895)^[1]
Watt, D. E. R., Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638, 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
Watt, D. E. R. & Shead, N. F. (eds.), The Heads of Religious Houses in Scotland from the 12th to the 16th Centuries, The Scottish Records Society, New Series, Volume 24, (Edinburgh, 2001)

Religious titles
Preceded by John Douglas	Commendator of St Mary's Isle 1536–1547	Succeeded by Robert Stirling
Preceded by Alexander Mylne	Commendator of Cambuskenneth 1549–1558	Succeeded by Not known next known commendator: Adam Erskine
Preceded by Robert Cairncross	Bishop of Ross 1450–1458	Succeeded by Henry Sinclair