Alexander Moncrieff, the youngest son of Matthew Moncrieff of Kintillo, was born in 1613, who, during a long and active life, took a prominent part in the ecclesiastical history of the seventeenth century. He was laureated at the University of Edinburgh, at the age of twenty-two, in 1635, and was a preacher and on the leet for Kirkcaldy about six years afterwards. On 14 June 1643 he was presented by Charles I to the parish of Scoonie, and admitted on 26 September following. He was a member of the Commission of Assembly in 1647; subscribed the Solemn League and Covenant, 31 December 1648; and was one of the Commissioners appointed to visit the University of St Andrews in January 1649. He gave in a protest to the Presbytery against the public Resolutions on 3 December 1651. He was named by C