David Stuart Moncreiff of Moredun FRSE (1710-1790) was an 18th-century Scottish advocate, landowner and agricultural improver.
[2] He was born in Perthshire on 8 September 1710 the second son of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 2nd Baronet (d.1738) and his wife, Margaret Smythe.
In 1743 he became a Deputy King's Remembrancer to the Exchequer and Secretary of Scottish Affairs to the Prince of Wales.
[4] In 1781 he succeeded John Maule as a Baron of the Exchequer alongside other notables such as Cosmo Gordon.
[5] He died at Moredun on 17 April 1790 and was buried in the Chapel Royal at Holyrood Abbey.