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Alexander Houstoun & Co.

Firm Details

People & Investments (4)

 Partner
William McDowall III of Garthland
 Partner
Andrew Houston or Houstoun of Jordanhill
 Partner
Robert Houstoun known as Robert Houstoun Rae
 Founding partner
Alexander Houston or Houstoun of Jordanhill

Notes

Major Glasgow West India firm, failing in 1801.

Sources

Douglas Hamilton’s ‘Scottish Trading in the Caribbean: The Rise and Fall of Houstoun & Co.’, in Ned C. Landsman (ed), Nation and Province in the First British Empire: Scotland and the Americas, 1600-1800 (Bucknell University Press, 2001), 94-126.