WISHART, GEORGE (c. 1513-1546), Scottish reformer, was accused of heresy in 1538, and fled to England, where a similar charge was brought against him at Bristol in the following year. In 1539 or 1540 he started for Germany and Switzerland, and returning to England became a member of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. In 1543 he went to in the train of a returning embassy. Wishart began to preach in 1544, at Perth, Edinburgh, Leith and Haddington. At Ormiston, in Dec.
he was seized by the earl of Bothwell, and transferred by order of the privy council to Edinburgh castle on Jan. 19, 1546. Thence he was handed over to Cardinal Beaton, who had him burnt at St. Andrews on March 1.
See Knox's Hist.; Reg. P. C. Scotland ; Foxe's Acts and Monuments; Hay Fleming's Martyrs and Confessors of St. Andrews; Cramond's Truth about Wishart (1898) and Did. of Nat. Biogr. vol. lxii.