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Glasgow West India merchant, co-founder of Leitch & Smith with Archibald Smith of Jordanhill. He appears to have died c. 1806; he settled his estate in 1804, was reported in 1856 to have left a legacy to the Glasgow Asylum for the Blind 'in 1806' and had disappeared from the Leitch & Smith partnership by 1807.
'On 26 March 1804 John Leitch of Kilmardinny executed a deed of settlement. Deed executed 1804, in favour of Andrew (son of his brother George) House of Lords, February 17th 1829', Scottish Jurist , No 6, Page 101; Glasgow Herald 26/11/1856; Stephen Mullen, 'The Glasgow West India interest: integration, collaboration and exploitation in the British Atlantic World, 1776-1846. (University of Glasgow, PhD thesis 2015) Chapter 6 'The Glasgow West India Merchant house of Archibald Smith of Jordanhill' pp. 147-170. at p. 147.
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1800 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
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. |
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1800 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
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. |
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Leitch and Smith (later J & A Smith)
West India merchant |
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Founder
Glasgow Asylum for the Blind ......
notes → John Leith c.1806 left £5000 for the foundation of an Asylum for the blind, which opened in 1828 after additional funding.
Statements of the education, employments, and internal arrangements,...
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Country house
Kilmardinny [Purchased]
description → Estate and house in Co. Dumbarton, 'six miles from Glasgow' in the late 19thC. Bought and remodelled by John Leitch c. 1800-1805, with a new front. It passed from him to the family of his nephew...
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Kilmardinny, Dumbartonshire, Central Scotland, Scotland
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1781 - 1830
Member of the Baillie of Dochfour family who had numerous mercantile connections in the West Indies. The compensation for Baillie's Bacolet in Grenada was awarded to the trustees of her marriage settlement. Grand-daughter of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenmure. Apparently a victim of the quack doctor John St John Lang of Harley Street in 1830.
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:
'John Leitch of Kilmardinny', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146666489/ [accessed 19th April 2024].
