Coatts, William (2)

Coatts, William (2)

a Scotch clergyman, took his degree at Glasgow University in 1725; was licensed to preach in 1726; became tutor in the family of Dunlop; was presented to the living at Kilmaurs in 1735, but was opposed and hindered by heritors and parishioners for a long time; was ordained in May 1739, and died May 2, 1777. See Fasti Eccles. Scoticanae, 2:180.