J. A. Wylie

J. A. Wylie (1808–1890) was a Scottish minister, historian and writer of Protestant polemic. Born in Kirriemuir and educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh, he was ordained in the Secession Church and later joined the Free Church of Scotland, editing the Free Church Record and lecturing on Roman Catholicism at the Protestant Institute of Scotland. His prize essay The Papacy made his name, and his three-volume History of Protestantism was widely read. His Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber combined travel through Italy with an argument against papal government, and he also wrote on the Waldensians.