ABSTRACT
Quite simply, both in life and in death, John Knox has attracted controversy. Gordon Donaldson has spoken of how Knox 'insisted that both his sons should have a sound Anglican upbringing, and sent them to school in England'. Knox himself, who had been born just 40 miles or so from the English border, certainly succeeded in casting aside traditional Scottish animosities towards the English. The year 1972, of course, saw the quatercentenary of Knox's death. Some were only too ready to celebrate the reformer's death; others saw the occasion as an opportunity to reflect on Knox's life; but even that ended in a kind of verbal punch-up. Gordon Donaldson once speculated how far 'Knox, who blasted against the monstrous regiment of women, was hen-pecked at home', and rather fancied that 'Knox was the kind of man who would have taken his mother-in-law on his honeymoon'.
