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James Aitken (died 1687) was a 17th-century Scottish prelate. Born in either 1612 or 1613 in Kirkwall Orkney he was the son of Elizabeth née Buchanan and sometime sheriff of Orkney and Shetland Henry Aitken. After his school days at Kirkwall grammar school he attended the University of Edinburgh graduating on 23 July 1636 with an MA. Subsequently he travelled to England to study divinity at the University of Oxford.