medieval Scottish ecclesiastical history, and the latter remains to this day one of the most comprehensive guides to medieval Scottish episcopal prosopography. An earlier work, The Workmanship of the Prayer Book: In Its Literary and Liturgical Aspects, (London: Methuen, 1899) remains an indispensable analysis of the background to and ethos of the Book of Common Prayer. Dowden gave the Rhind lectures in 1901, on "The Constitution, Organisation, and Law of the Mediaeval Church in Scotland". References Further reading Dowden, Alice (1910) "Biographical sketch" in: Dowden, John: The Medieval Church in Scotland Watt, D. E. R., "Scotland: Religion and Piety", in Steve Rigby (ed.), A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages, (Oxford, 2003), pp. 396–410 (info on p. 396) External links Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury 1840 births 1910 deaths Bishops of Edinburgh 19th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops 20th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops Alumni of Queens College Cork Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Irish Anglicans Converts to Anglicanism from Presbyterianism