William Morehead of Herbertshire FRSE (1737–1793) was an 18th-century Scottish landowner and forefather of the Morehead dynasty of prominent persons in Scotland and India.
In 1783 he was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
[1][2] He was born in 1737 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire the son of Robert Morehead, a merchant.
He died on 18 June 1793 at "Herbertshire" a mansion south of Stirling and is buried in the family burial ground at Denny nearby.
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