Welsh, David, a Scottish divine, a gentlemanly scholarly man, professor of Church History in the University of Edinburgh; was Moderator of the General Assembly on the occasion of the Disruption of the Scottish Church (1843), and headed the secession on the day of the exodus (1793‒1845).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Wells, Charles Jeremiah * Welsh