Oswald, Richard

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Dates 1746-80s
Location London
Vocation Merchant and diplomat
Place of Birth Dunnet, Caithness?
Marriage Mary Ramsay
Issue
Place of birth Source Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Apprenticed in Glasgow before migrating to London in 1746. Based at a counting-house on Philpot Lane, began an ambitious shipping and merchandising operation - tobacco, horses, slaves and sugar. Through marriage, branched out into government contracting and land speculation. Later in life divided time between London (townhouse on Great George Street) and mansion on the River Ayr. Died in Scotland in 1784.

Had two illegitimate sons who predeceased him.