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John de Ralston was a 15th-century Scottish bishop and administrator. He was regarded as illegitimate although today his parents are not known. Ralston appears in the records for the first time in 1426 where he is chaplain and secretary to Archibald Douglas 5th Earl of Douglas. He retained this position on the death of Douglas in 1439. Between 1429 and 1443 he served as the fourth provost of Bothwell Collegiate Church the home church of the Douglas earls.