Charles Mackglashan

Awardee in multiple claims in Jamaica, especially in Kingston and adjacent parishes, identified in as Doctor of Medicine or MD of Kingston Jamaica and as the partner of John Miller. Although LBS is still analysing the Mackglashan family, it appears that the claimant was the nephew of John Mackglashan (q.v.) who died at Bath in 1825; there was another John Mackglashan still alive in the 1830s (possibly a brother of the man of this entry) and a second Charles Mackglashan who died in 1834 (the father of the man of this entry).

1. Charles Mackglashan, partner of John Miller, was named as an executor and beneficiary in the will of his father Charles senior who died in 1834. He was the twin of Petronella, both born 13/01/1792 and baptised 16/02/1792 in St Andrew, Jamaica. Petronella MackGlashan was buried in St Andrew, 06/05/1810.

2. Charles MackGlashan of Jamaica was a student of botany at the University of Edinburgh in 1809.

3. Charles Mackglashan, formerly a surgeon in the Royal Navy, has a monumental inscription giving date of death as 27/01/1834 aged 74. If the death-date is correct, the Charles Mackglashan of the awards cannot be the same man, but must be the Charles Mackglashan jun. appearing in the mid-1820s.

T71/865 St Andrew no. 560 identifies him as both MD and surviving partner of Mackglashan and Miller.

1. PROB 11/1848/84; Familysearch.org, Jamaica Church of England Parish Register Transcripts, 1664-1880 [database online].

2. atom.rbge.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/UoE-Student-Lists-index_1798_1819.pdf [accessed 09/11/2021].

3. James Henry Lawrence-Archer, Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies (1875) p. 244.

We are grateful to James Brennan for his assistance with compiling this entry.