Description: (Reformer)
George Wishart was a Scottish Protestant Reformer and early martyr burned at the stake as a heretic. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen and taught Greek at Montrose. Wishart then resided in Cambridge for about six years before returning to Scotland. He preached in various regions, including Montrose, Dundee, and Ayrshire. Wishart was eventually apprehended, tried, found guilty, and condemned as a heretic by a clerical Assembly in St. Andrews. He was executed at the stake on Castle Green in the presence of his persecutor, Cardinal David Beaton.