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|Dates=1738-9
|Location=London
|Vocation=Merchant
|Place of Birth=Cromarty
|Marriage=Margaret Russell (d.1752); Elizabeth Grant
|Issue=9 children
|Source=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Son of prosperous shopkeeper in herring port of Cromarty. Attended the local school and at 16 migrated to London. Worked in a counting-house but was recalled to Scotland the following year on account of his father's death. Returned to Scotland and became a successful merchant, which helped to revive local industry.
Died at his home in Cromarty (1800).

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