John Colin Dunlop

John Colin Dunlop FRSE (1785 - 1842) was a Scottish advocate and historian.

Life

He was born near Glasgow on 30 December 1785[1] the son of John Dunlop, of Rosebank, Glasgow, who was Lord Provost of Glasgow, 1794-1796.

John Colin was studious and reclusive. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1807 in 1807, but was only nominally at the Scottish bar. He became sheriff depute of Renfrewshire in 1816[2] and served this role until his death.

He worked with the firm of Dunlop Rowand & Co at 63 St Vincent Street in central Glasgow.[3]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1833 his proposers being Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank and Sir Thomas Dick Lauder.[4]

In later life he lived at 12 India Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town.[5]

He died in Edinburgh[6] on 26 January 1842.

Works

Dunlop wrote:[2]

Notes

  1. http://www.theodora.com/encyclopedia/d/john_colin_dunlop.html
  2. 1 2  Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Dunlop, John Colin". Dictionary of National Biography 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. Glasgow Post Office Directory 1840-41
  4. BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF FORMER FELLOWS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  5. Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1840-41
  6. http://www.bartleby.com/library/bios/1882.html

External links

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Dunlop, John Colin". Dictionary of National Biography 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co.   This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Wikisource 


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