MONCREIFF

Sir Henry Well wood , 10 Baronet (eld. son of the succeeding). b. Edinburgh 21 May 1809; ed. at Edinb. high sch. and univ. Edinb. 1823; matric. from New coll. Oxf. 5 April 1827, B.A. 1831; president of Union debating soc.; minister of parish of Balder nock, Stir lings hire 1836–7; minister of East Kilbride, Lan arks hire 1837–43; minister of Free East Kilbride 1843–52; minister of Free St. Cuthbert’s, Edinb. 1852 to death; succeeded his father as 10 baronet 4 April 1851; joint principal clerk to free general a embly 1855; D.D. Glasgow 1860; secretary of the Bible board Jany. 1861 to death; moderator of free church a embly 1871; sec. to H.M. master printer in Scotland 1 Jany. 1861; author of Creeds and churches in Scotland 1869; A vindication of the free church claim of right 1877; The free church principle, its character and history, Chalmer lectures 1883. d. 6 Murchiston terrace, Edinburgh 4 Nov. 1883. J. A. Wylie’s Disruption worthies (1881) 419–28, portrait ; W. Wilson’s Memorials of R. S. Candlish (1880) 225–59; Biograph , iv 107–8 (1880).