William Dinwiddie

WILLIAM DINWIDDIE

Merchant at Manchester in England

William Dinwiddie, here treated, is reported to have been the twenty-first child of Laurence Dinwiddie of Germiston Exhibition Illustrative of Old Glasgow, 1894: 295

Marriage Intimation

29 January 1782: At Edinburgh, Mr. William Dinwiddie, of Manchester, to Miss Hamilton, daughter of the late Dr. Gilbert Hamilton, minister at Crammond. [The Scots Magazine, MDCCLXXXII, Volume XLIV. (Murray and Cochran, Edinburgh), page 54]

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

1 July 1807: [Letter from] Mrs. Isabella Cornelia Blair; clerkship; [to] Laurence Dinwiddie, son of William Dinwiddie, merchant, Manchester. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Dundas Family of Melville, Viscounts Melville (Melville Castle Papers), reference GD51/6/1515

Evidence from the Exhibition Illustrative of Old Glasgow

609a. Copper Foundation Plate from William Dinwiddie's house. This plate is worth noticing from the fine engraving, so deep and sharp, and from its history. In 1789, William Dinwiddie, twenty-first child (as the plate tells us) of Provost Lawrence Dinwiddie (No. 474), being then a well-to-do merchant in Manchester, built himself a villa on the outskirts of the town, and buried this plate on the foundation stone. Long afterwards the Corporation of Manchester bought the old Dinwiddie villa, took down the house, and threw the grounds into one of their parks. In taking down the house they came on the plate and deposited it in their museum. They afterwards kindly gave it up to the family, whose attention had been drawn to the circumstance by a news- paper paragraph. Exhibition Illustrative of Old Glasgow, 1894: 295