Archibald Smith of Jordanhill

Profile & Legacies Summary

1749 - 1821

Biography

Glasgow merchant, partner in Leitch & Smith and James Finlay & Co. Purchased Jordanhill 1821. Son of James Smith of Craigend.

Anthony Cooke shows Archibald Smith leaving an estate of £69,160 including share of stock in Leitch and Smith of £62,237.
Archibald Smith's son James Smith (1782-1867) and grandson Archibald Smith (1813-1872) have entries in the ODNB as geologist and mathematician respectively. In turn, subsequent generations include civil servants, politicians and financiers. See the Oxford DNB entries for James and Archibald Smith for further details. One of the children of Archibald Smith (1813-1872) and his wife, Susan Emma Parker, was Charles Stewart Smith (1859–1934), a British naval officer and diplomat, who was actively involved in the suppression of the slave trade in East Africa and held consular positions there and in Spain and Russia.

Sources

Anthony Cooke, 'An elite revisited: Glasgow West India merchants, 1783-1877', Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 32.2 2012 pp. 127-165, at p. 164, Inventory CC 10/7/4/2357 11/10/1822; additional inventory CC 10/7/4/236 31/10/1822, further inventory SC 36/48/19/143 10/08/1824.
George Fairfull Smith, 'Smith, James, of Jordanhill (1782–1867), geologist and biblical historian', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, https://0-doi-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/10.1093/ref:odnb/25823; E. I. Carlyle, revised by Adrian Rice, 'Smith, Archibald (1813–1872), mathematician', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, https://0-doi-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/10.1093/ref:odnb/25775.
For Charles Stewart Smith see Everybody Wiki: Charles Stewart Smith.

We are grateful to Bill Farebrother for his assistance with compiling this entry.

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Spouse

Isabella Ewing

Children

James; Archibald

Wealth at death

£69,160

Occupation

West India merchant

Associated Estates (3)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

SD - Association Start Date
SY - Association Start Year
EA - Earliest Known Association
ED - Association End Date
EY - Association End Year
LA - Latest Known Association

1800 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Heywood Hall Estate [ Jamaica | St Mary ]

Leitch & Smith had advanced £25,000 to Robert Mackay & Co. in 1800 on mortgage.

Mullen, Stephen Scott (2015) The ‘Glasgow West India interest: integration, collaboration and exploitation in the British Atlantic World, 1776-1846. PhD thesis, Glasgow 2015 pp. 164-166, 215.

1800 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder

Iter Boreale [ Jamaica | St George ]

Leitch & Smith had advanced £25,000 to Robert Mackay & Co. in 1800 on mortgage.

Mullen, Stephen Scott (2015) The ‘Glasgow West India interest: integration, collaboration and exploitation in the British Atlantic World, 1776-1846. PhD thesis, Glasgow 2015 pp. 164-166, 215.

1810 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Not known

Millenium Hall [ Jamaica | St Thomas-in-the-East, Surrey ]

Millennium Hall was shown against Leitch & Smith for 1810-11 (Jamaica Almanacs 1811 and 1812). The Glasgow merchant firm had a branch in Kingston Jamaica.