BAILLIE, ROBERT Scottish divine, was born at Glasgow. He was a member of the famous Glasgow Assembly (1638) , professor of divinity at Glasgow (1642), one of the five Scottish clergymen who were sent to the Westminster Assembly (1643), and one of the commissioners sent to Holland to invite Charles II. to Scotland (1649). In 1661 he was made principal of Glasgow university. His Letters, by which he is now chiefly remembered, are of first-rate historical importance, and give a very lively picture of the period.
See D. Laing's edition of the Letters and Journals of Robert Baillie (1637-62), Bannatyne club, 3 vols. (1841-42) .