Some Pauls of Glasgow and their descendants

10 SOME PAULS OF GLASGOW
His death produced a great sensation in Edinburgh.
It was, of course, long before the days of evening, or
even of daily newspapers, but the news was announced
by bills hawked about the streets of Edinburgh.
Thousands of people attended the funeral. It is a pity
that no portrait of him was made during his life, but
Sir Henry Raeburn, who was a sitter in the church,
painted it from memory after his death. The original
portrait by him is in the possession of the family of his
son Henry, but there were very good copies made, of
which I have one. The print which appears in Kay's
Portraits was also executed by that artist after my
grandfather's death.
He married, 7 April 1780, Susan, daughter of the
Reverend Sir William Moncreiff, Baronet, minister
of Blackford, by his wife Catherine Wellwood, and
sister of his colleague Sir Henry Moncreiff Wellwood.
The Moncreiffs have a very long church connection,
Sir William's father, grandfather, great-grandfather,
and great-great-grandfather having all been ministers
of the Church of Scotland. Sir Henry Moncreiff,
the son of Sir William, was minister of St. Cuthbert's,
and took the name of Wellwood in consequence of
the estate of Tullibole having been left to him
when a child by an uncle of his mother's, Henry
Wellwood of Garvoch and Pitliver. Sir Henry's son
James was the first judge under the title of Lord
Moncreiff. James's second son, also James, who had a
distinguished legal and political career, was likewise a
judge, and was raised to the Peerage in 1873 under the
title of Lord Moncreiff of Tullibole.
By Susan Moncreiff, who was born in September
1752, and died at 13 George Square, Edinburgh, 21
November 1828, the Rev. William Paul had issue :—
1. William, born at St. Cuthbert's Manse, 10 June