Moved to Edinburgh from London after an incomplete apprenticeship to a vintner, and set up as a grocer, later giving himself the superior classification of ‘merchant’. In Edinburgh in or about 1783 he married Catherine Tweddale, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, who later brought an inheritance to the family.
(DNB & Scot Fasti Vol 2 p 359)
Moved to Edinburgh from London after an incomplete apprenticeship to a vintner, and set up as a grocer, later giving himself the superior classification of ‘merchant’. In Edinburgh in or about 1783 he married Catherine Tweddale, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, who later brought an inheritance to the family.
(DNB & Scot Fasti Vol 2 p 359)
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