Rev. James Hall, D.D., Kays Portraits, 1791/1835.

[ Rev. James Hall, D.D. ], of the Secession Church, Broughton Place, Edinburgh. Throughout the long period of his ministry in this city, few men enjoyed a greater degree of popularity or were more highly and generally esteemed than the Rev. gentleman whose Portrait is prefixed. He was born at Cathcart Mill, a few miles west of Glasgow, on the 6th January 1756. His ancestors were millers, and had occupied the mill for several generations. His father, James Hall, a man of education and intelligence greatly superior to his rank, was one of the original seceders from the Church of Scotland, and feued the site of the first Secession Church in Glasgow; and his mother Isabella Bulloch, whose paternal property lay in the vicinity of Kirkintilloch, presented the Seceders of that place with the ground on which their church is erected. Copper etched print published in Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, 1837-8. Size 8 x 11 cms plus margins. Ref F2002