Thomas Grahame

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

• 15 August 1771 birth or baptism of Thomas Graham, son of Thomas Graham and Jean Robertson [child 7], in the parish of Glasgow

From Scotland's People Old Parish Registers - Marriages

• 30 October 1809 marriage or banns of Thomas Grahame to Hannah Dunlop, in the parish of Glasgow

From British Newspaper Archive: The Scots Magazine November 1809 Page 78 Marriages

Marriages: Monday, 30 October 1809. At Glasgow, Thomas Grahame, Esq. to Hannah Dunlop, second daughter of Alexander Dunlop, Esq. Glasgow.

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

Possible list of 1 child of Thomas Graham and Hannah Dunlop from first: 20 December 1810 Alexander Graham

• 20 December 1810 birth or baptism of Alexander Graham, son of Thomas Graham and Hannah Dunlop [child 1], in the parish of Barony

From Scotland's People: Old Parish Records - Deaths and Burials

11 May 1831 death or burial of Thomas Grahame, aged 59 [born about 1772], in the parish of Edinburgh

From "William Henry Hill handwritten manuscript, Page 31 103 Thomas Grahame 104 Richard G 105 Robert G 106 Martin G 107 Thomas G 108 Alexander G 109 Jane or Jean G 110 Thomas G.jpg"

[WHH-REF:107] Thomas Grahame, manufacturer, Glasgow, third son of [WHH-REF:86 Thomas Grahame] was born on 15 August 1771 and died 10 May 1831. He married on [blank] October 1809, Hannah Dunlop, daughter of Alexander Dunlop, surgeon, Glasgow, by whom he had issue Alexander Grahame [WHH-REF:108]

From Biographical Sketches of the Hon. The Lord Provosts of Glasgow by John Tweed Published 1883 Page 12

Mr. [Correction: Thomas] Grahame left three sons and two daughters: Robert Grahame, the subject of this notice; James Grahame, advocate in Edinburgh, afterwards incumbent of Sedgefield in England, author of "The Sabbath" and other poems; Thomas Grahame, manufacturer in Glasgow; Margaret Grahame, who died unmarried; and Jane Grahame, married to Archibald Grahame of Dalmarnock, a partner and cashier of the Thistle Bank, who had previously been partner with his father-in-law as a writer.

From Wikisource - Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 46 Archibald Prentice

Archibald Prentice, (1792–1857), journalist, son of Archibald Prentice of Covington Mains in the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire, and Helen, daughter of John Stoddart of The Bank, a farm in the parish of Carnwath, was born in November 1792. He was descended from an old covenanting family. After a somewhat meagre education at a neighbouring school, Archibald was, when only twelve years old, apprenticed to a baker in Edinburgh; but, the occupation proving uncongenial, he was in the following summer (1805) apprenticed to a woollen-draper in the Lawnmarket. Here he remained for three years, when he removed to Glasgow [about 1808] as a clerk in the warehouse of Thomas Grahame, brother of James Grahame [q. v.] the poet. Two years later he was appointed traveller to the house in England, and in 1815 [Thomas] Grahame, acting on his advice, removed his business from Glasgow to Manchester, and at the same time admitted Prentice into partnership in the firm.

From PDF FORMAT: The Making of a Middle Class Liberalism in Manchester, circa 1815-32: A Study in Politics and the Press by Michael J. Turner, Worcester College, Oxford Trinity Term, 1991

Archibald Prentice moved to Glasgow in 1809 as apprentice to the manufacturer Thomas Grahame.

The character of the milieu in which he moved in Glasgow was greatly to influence his future endeavours in Manchester. His employer Thomas Grahame was the son of a member of an old family of Glasgow solicitors; the Grahames were closely tied to the eighteenth century mercantile elite of the town. Thomas's elder brother Robert Grahame was active in the local Whig cause from the 1790s and was one of the 'Clique' which achieved ascendancy in local politics in the 1830s. The leading proprietor of the Glasgow Chronicle was John Douglas, a veteran Whig who stood as a candidate in the 1832 Glasgow parliamentary election. In 1833 Robert Grahame was the first Lord Provost of the reformed Glasgow Town Council. Another brother of Thomas was the poet James Grahame, and the connection with literary men is further established by the fact that David Prentice was a godson of the poet James Thomson.

In 1811 Prentice became the travelling agent or 'bagman' of Thomas Grahame's firm, with a salary of £100 a year. He enjoyed his job immensely: 'Our house has a good name, and its friends are hospitable to its representative'. In 1815 Grahame took him into partnership. That year also saw the movement of the firm from Glasgow to Manchester. Prentice had visited Manchester on his commercial travels and convinced Grahame that the business opportunities in the capital of the cotton trade were too good to ignore. The two men established a fustian warehouse in 9 Peel Street.

From Archibald Prentice - About Manchester

Prentice was not a Mancunian by birth, the son of a Scottish farmer, he had been born in Lanarkshire in 1792, training in the muslin business of Mr Grahame of Glasgow, and travelling to the North of England over a period of two years selling its wares.

He settled in Manchester in 1815, Napoleon defeated and the hopes of Wellington’s victorious soldiers for a new future brightly shining. Prentice opened a warehouse at No 1 Peel Street as a branch of his Glasgow employer. The corn laws had been passed and that bright future would quickly wane.

Possibly Testimonials in favour of Thomas Grahame for the position of Clerk to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal Company Jan 1823 | The National Archives

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