William Harper
d. 1785
Cousin to the older Reverend William Harper, and minister at St Paul's in Edinburgh from 1756 (see Ingram, Jacobite Stronghold, p. 66). He earlier ministered in Stirlingshire, where he was "very active in aiding and assisting the Rebels &and waited for the Pretender's Son at Falkirk" (Rosebery's List of Persons Concerned in the Rebellion, pp. 56-57).