Matthew Dinwiddie of Germiston

MATTHEW DINWIDDIE OF GERMISTON

Matthew Dinwiddie of Germiston is the son of Robert Dinwiddie of Germiston and his wife, Elizabeth Cumming. He was born before 1 September 1687, the date upon which his baptism was registered at Glasgow in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

He Succeeds his Father

Matthew Dinwiddie succeeded his father before 15 August 1710, the date upon which the town council of Glasgow agreed to issue a precept of clare constat in his favour for the lands of Germiston Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow, A.D. 1691-1717 (Scottish Records Society, Glasgow, MDCCCCVIII), page 452 On 31 August 1710 the town council subscribed to: "an precept of clare constat, for infefting of Mathew Dinwiddie, merchant in Glasgow, as nearest and lawfull heir to unquhill Robert Dinwiddie, merchant there, his father, in all and hail the lands of Jermistoun, paying yearly to the toun ten merks of fewduty, for which the said Mathew Dinwiddie has payd in to John McGilchrist, collector of the touns fewduties, one hundred and twenty-six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, Scotts, in full of the bygone fewduty, including the years fewduty jm vijc and ten, and the double fewduty as the composition for his entry also included" Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow, A.D. 1708-38 (Scottish Records Society, Glasgow, MDCCCCIX), page 564

Biographical Summary for Lawrence Dinwiddie of Germiston

Exhibit No. 474. Miniature Lent by Miss Dinwiddie, London. Lawrence Dinwiddie of Germiston. Born, 1697; died, 1746. Virginia merchant. In 1774 his old firm, then Dinwiddie, Crawford & Co., stood fourth in the list of tobacco importers. An original partner in the Glasgow Arms Bank, in the " New Glasgow Tanwork and Shoe and Saddle Factory," and, like his brother the Governor, in the "Pott Work" at Delftfield, near the Broomielaw. Had his town house in the second flat of that great tenement on the north side of the Trongate just east of Hutchesons' Hospital. Bought back Germiston, from which, years before, his elder brother Matthew, being insolvent, had very naturally been evicted. Provost in 1742, 1743. One of " the Six Commissioners " to the Rebels in the '45. Son of Robert Dinwiddie of Germiston, and brother of Governor Robert Dinwiddie (No. 11). Had two wives, Janet Coulter, sister of Provost John Coulter, and Elizabeth Kennedy of Auchtyfardle, who between them bore him twenty - one children (see No. 1609a). One of the twenty- one, Lawrence Dinwiddie, Junior, married Mary Nisbet, who lived till 28th June, 1849. In 1843, just 100 years after her father-in-law's Provostship, Mary Dinwiddie gave to Free St. Enoch's the communion plate still in use. Germiston, which is a 2 merk land of the " Tenandrie " of Provan, is now owned by Provost Dinwiddie's indirect representatives, the Lockharts of Milton Lockhart. Exhibition Illustrative of Old Glasgow, 1894: pp. 160-61