Major Dundas Hamilton

MAJOR DUNDAS HAMILTON

Merchant and Bank Agent in Glasgow: Sometime Provost of Glasgow

Fasti V: 379

HAMILTON
DUNDAS
ARCHIBALD HAMILTON/AGNES TROKES FR3783 (FR3783) M
30/06/1823 644/1 310 244 Glasgow

Marriage

HAMILTON
DUNDAS MARGARET JANE/ORR FR5383 (FR5383) 17/04/1849 622/ 190 500 Barony

HAMILTON DUNDAS MARGARET JANE/ORR FR7925 (FR7925) 17/04/1849 644/1 430 497 Glasgow

Genealogy

Fasti V: 379

Biographical Summary

Dundas [1] was the first bill collector for the Bank of Scotland in Glasgow.

In 1787 he was a member of the management committee of the Merchants House and Chamber of Commerce,
and a director of the town hospital.

He was a founder and first secretary for the Chamber of Commerce in 1783, and the Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1792 and 1793.

Preceptor of Hutchesons Hospital and President Humane Society in 1790.

Major of the Armed Association in 1803.

Member of the Glasgow Stock Exchange association from 1845-1862.

He was appointed a Glasgow Magistrate, and by 1861 was Secretary of the Glasgow Gas & Light Company.

[1] Seekers of Truth: The Scottish Founders of Modern Public Accountancy, By Thomas Alexander Lee

From Scotland's People - Old Parish Registers - Births and Baptisms

• 30 June 1823 birth or baptism of Dundas Hamilton, son of Archibald Hamilton and Agnes Trokes [child 13], in the parish of Glasgow