Andrew Cant (educator)

Andrew Cant (c.1626–1685) was a Scottish clergyman and scholar, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1675 to 1685.

After 14 years he was translated to Trinity Parish in Edinburgh in 1673, replacing Joshua Meldrum.

On 29 September 1675 the Town Council of Edinburgh appointed him "second charge" of St Giles Cathedral under William Annand.

As an Edinburgh minister during the reign of Charles II, and consequently is assumed to have been an adherent of Episcopacy.

His nephew Andrew Cant (d.1728) was deprived of his charge in Edinburgh, at the Revolution of 1689, and, on 17 October 1722 was consecrated as one of the bishops of the disestablished Episcopal Church in Scotland.