J.R. McCulloch by O'Brien D. P

Author:O'Brien, D. P. [O'Brien, D P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781134559183
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

ENDNOTES

1. Although the most interesting aspects of McCulloch’s career are dealt with in detail below, it seems desirable to give a general outline of his life and work in order to provide a frame of reference for the complete study that follows.

2. The parish records contain no entry for McCulloch’s baptism either at Whithorn or at Kircudbright so there is no alternative but to accept the date of birth given by H. G. Reid (in Biographical Notice of John Ramsay McCulloch, London, privately printed 1865, and appended in an extended form to the 1869 edition of McCulloch’s Dictionary of Commerce) and by Thomas Murray (Autobiographical Notes also Reminiscences of a Journey to London in 1840, Dumfries, 1911, of which the manuscript in the National Library of Scotland has been studied). Reid was McCulloch’s son-in-law, confidential clerk, and assistant in later years on the Commercial Dictionary. Murray was a close friend of McCulloch, as well as a contributor to his Statistical Account of the British Empire (ibid., p. 65). The date of birth is also confirmed in a legal document of 1807 in Reading University Library, State of the Process of Reduction, Removing, &c, at the instance of John Ramsay McCulloch of Auchingool, in the Parish of Rerwick . . . against John Rain and Alexander Rain residing in Auchingool aforesaid. The confirmation is p. 2 of a latter part of this document entitled Answer.

3. Auchengool was of 278 acres of which, however, nearly 100 acres were bogs and mosses – State of the Process, p. 43. The property in Whithorn was a house, garden, and adjoining farm; that in Kircudbright (according to its deeds which the present author has examined) was sold in 1795 to the Earl of Selkirk and did not pass to McCulloch.

4. No Record of Testament exists for William McCulloch. The year of his death is given by Murray, op. cit., p. 72, and by State of the Process, Answer, p. 2.

5. Services of Heirs in the Scottish Record Office gives the date as July 5, 1795. See also Answer, p. 2.

6. Answer, p. 2; Murray, op. cit., p. 72; see also the family tree given by Reid, op. cit., p. 23.

7. See State of the Process and Answer, passim, especially pp. 2–3; Murray, op. cit., pp. 72–3 and passim.

8. General Record of Sasines, Scottish Record Office, GR 745, f. 235. The legal formalities do not seem to have been completed until January 22, 1806 (and not registered until February 13th) but Services of Heirs in the Scottish Record Office records the property as being inherited on November 15, 1805.

9. Answer, p. 3; Murray, op. cit., pp. 73–4.

10. See especially State of the Process, Answer, and associated documents. The Rev. Laing’s appeal against the court’s verdict was dismissed on July 11, 1809 – Scottish Record Office Innes (2nd Division), Bundle 12, number 22. See also Murray, op. cit., p. 75.

11. Murray, op. cit., p. 77. The flat in College Street was still in the possession of the

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