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Andrew Houstoun or Houston, Scottish banker and West India merchant. His son Robert Houstoun (q.v.) claimed compensation for one estate as owner and three estates in Grenada as trustee and executor of Hon. Andrew Houstoun (q.v.), who identified Robert Houston as his brother in his will proved in 1833. Genealogical sites online show the death-date of Andrew Houstoun of Jordanhill as 1800, although no death-record has yet been found by LBS.
Son of Alexander Houstoun, who founded West India house of Alexander Houstoun & Co. and was one of the six founders of the old Ship Bank (or Dunlop Houston & Co.). Andrew Houstoun became a partner in Alexander Houstoun & Co., which failed in 1795: 'So great a failure Glasgow had never seen, not even in the crash of the American war.'
One of the original partners of the Greenock Banking Company, established in 1785.
Prominent Mason: Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Glasgow in 1795.
George Stewart, Curiosities of Glasgow citizenship as exhibited chiefly in the business career of its old commercial aristocracy (Glasgow, James MacLehose & Sons, 1881) pp. 223-224.
https://www.rbs.com/heritage/companies/greenock-banking-co.html [accessed 06/12/2017].
http://www.pglglasgow.org.uk/pastpgm.html [accessed 01/08/2012].
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Absentee?
British/Irish
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Spouse
Margaret Weir
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Children
Robert (1780-), Margaret White; [Andrew]
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Occupation
Banker
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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:
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1777 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Inferred from 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): ''In July 1777, Alexander Houstoun & co. took over the ownership of the Mount Alexander estate from their debtor Alexander Wilson.' |
Commercial (3) |
Founding Partner
Greenock Banking Co.
Banker notes → One of four co-founders...
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Lessee
Govan Colliery
Coal, iron and marble notes → Colliery in the Gorbals, leased in the last 1790s to Lt Col. Andrew Houstoun and 'Houston Rae'. 'In the last three years of the century the partners' profits were £10,166 9s and the lease was...
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Partner
Alexander Houstoun & Co.
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Physical (1) |
Country house
Jordanhill [Built]
description → C. 1782 Andrew Houstoun built a new house on the estate at Jordanhill that he inherited from his father. The house formed the greater part of the 'present mansion' when John Guthrie Smith and John...
notes → Stephanie Barczewski, Country house and the British Empire, 1700-1930 p....
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Father → Son
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Father → Son
Notes →
Inferred from the will of Hon. Andrew Houston, who identified his brother as Robert Houstoun a colonel in the HEIC, and his sisters as Elizabeth Rea [sic], Isabella and...
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Son → Father
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Brothers
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Brothers
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Jordanhill, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Central Scotland, Scotland
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1801 - 25th Nov 1880
English clergyman, resident in Jamaica from 1827 but returning to England with his Jamaican-born wife and children six years later.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Andrew Houston or Houstoun the younger, of Jordanhill', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/357221229 [accessed 21st November 2024].
