{{Short description|Scottish judge and bishop}} {{About|the 16th-century Scottish bishop|the American gang leader|Sex Money Murder}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} '''Peter Rollock''' or '''Rollo''' of [[Pilton, Edinburgh|Pilton]] (c. 1558–1632) was a Scottish judge and Bishop of the [[Church of Scotland]].
==Life== {{More citations needed|section|date=November 2022}} Peter Rollock was a son of Andrew Rollock of [[Duncrub]], [[Perthshire]], and his wife Marion Rollo, daughter and heiress of David Rollo of Bello.<ref>Gordon MacGregor, [https://redbookofscotland.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/RBS-Content-Vol-15.pdf ''Red Book of Scotland'', 2025 edition, volume 15, p. 10]</ref><ref>''Scots Peerage'', 7 (Edinburgh, ), p. 188.</ref> He became a Law [[student]] at [[St Mary's College, St Andrews]] qualifying as an advocate in 1573 and further gaining a [[Master of Arts (Scotland)|Master of Arts]] degree in 1575. He did further studies in [[Law]] and Theology in [[Continental Europe]].
In March 1585 he was appointed [[Bishop of Dunkeld]] in place of [[James Paton (bishop)|James Paton]] and adopted the role in April, although he exercised few [[Bishop|episcopal]] duties, the purpose of his appointment being to administer the [[diocese]] and to be eligible to sit in the [[Parliament of Scotland]]. Rollock became a royal judge and councillor, becoming an Extraordinary [[Lord of Session]] in May 1596 and an Ordinary Lord in December 1598.
After travelling to England with King James VI in 1603 to take part in his coronation in the capacity of King [[James I of England]], Rollock was Comptroller of the King's Household for two years, returning to Scotland in 1605. As King James began reviving [[Episcopal polity|episcopacy]], Rollock was compelled to give up his [[Diocese|bishopric]], and [[James Nicolson (bishop)|James Nicolson]] was appointed in his place in 1607.
Rollock experienced a fluctuating position in the higher echelons of government, losing (1609) and regaining (1610) and then resigning (1620) his place on the bench, and going in (1587) and out (1610) and in again (1616) and then leaving (1625) the [[Privy Council]].
On 21 September 1611 an attempt was made on his life by two sons of Matthew Finlayson of Killeith or Kinleith, with whom he was in the midst of a lawsuit. They fired on him en route from Restalrig to Pilton.<ref>''Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae''; vol. 7; by Hew Scott</ref>
He died at Pilton House near Edinburgh on 30 June 1632.
==Family==
He firstly married (1594) the twice-widowed Christian Cant, but had no children. He then married (1607) Elizabeth Weston, widow of John Fairlie of [[Bruntsfield]] and had one son, Walter Rollock.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== *Goodare, Julian, "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24031 Rollock, Peter, of Pilton (c.1558–1632)]", in the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 19 Feb 2007] *[[D. E. R. Watt|Watt, D.E.R.]], ''Fasti Ecclesiae Scotinanae Medii Aevi ad annum 1638'', 2nd Draft, (St Andrews, 1969)
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