Reverend William Harper
d. 19 Dec 1765
Minister at St Paul's in Carruber's Close, to whom Forbes "acted as assistant [...] for about six months" before settling in Leith (Irons, Leith and Its Antiquities, p. 564). Author of the Jacobite pamphlet The Advice of a Friend, to the Army and People of Scotland ([Edinburgh?]: 1745), and A Treatise on Infallibility [...] (Edinburgh: William Gordon, 1752). See Ingram, Jacobite Stronghold, passim.