Halyburton, Thomas (1674–1712)

Scottish cleric and author. He became minister of Ceres, Fifeshire, in about 1700 and was appointed professor of divinity at St Andrews in 1710.

He was born at Dupplin, near Perth. He attended the school instituted by Erasmus in Rotterdam 1685–87. He completed his education at Perth and Edinburgh, also graduating from St Andrews University in 1696. His publications include Natural Religion Insufficient, and Revealed Necessary, to Man's Happiness (1714), The Great Concern of Salvation (1721), and Ten Sermons.. (1722). These last were mostly written against the deists. His memoirs were published in 1714 and have been reprinted several times.