Thomas Webster & Co, ropemakers and sailcloth manufacturers. For further information on Wright and his activities, see Dykes, SNC July-August 1996, pp.195-9. 1055-61
James Wright Jr (1768-98), numismatist; the excellent article by D.W. Dykes (SNC July-August 1996, pp.195-9) shows how influential Wright became in the design of Scottish tokens and medallic art generally, right up to the time of his premature death in April 1798. Following a temporary fall in the price of silver in 1797, Wright toyed with the idea of issuing a silver shilling in Dundee but, realising that issuing silver coin was the sole prerogative of the Crown, he termed them silver medals (Dykes, 2011, pp.303-4). 1062
John Steele, linen and woollen draper, High street. 1063
James Bissett & Son, flax spinners and manufacturers, Back street. Andrew Nicol (1769-1837), described on his token as a tobacconist, was one of twins born to James Nicol and his wife, Elizabeth (née Rankine) on 7 March 1769. He married, firstly, Jean Brown in November 1795, then Wilhelmina Garden (1778- 1854) in June 1807. He moved to his second wife’s home city, Aberdeen, in 1810, was admitted a burgess of the city guild in 1811 and became a partner in the Aberdeen Town & County Bank; his death occurred on 28 May 1837. His youngest son, George Garden Nicol (1810-97) was a merchant in China and Singapore and held directorships with the London Joint Stock Bank, the North British and Mercantile Insurance Co and the Eastern Telegraph Co. 1064
This token depicts the original Inverary Castle, the ancestral home of the dukes of Argyll, which was demolished in 1744 and replaced by the classic Georgian mansion, Argyle House, shown on DH 1 (not present in the Brown collection). 1065-72
Col William Fullarton (1754-1808), Ayrshire landowner and MP who became governor of Trinidad in 1802. For further details on Fullarton and his token issues, see Dykes, BNJ 2002, pp.149-63. 1073
James Paterson, draper, spirit and tea dealer, listed in Pigot’s 1837 directory. 1074
For close upon 60 years John Halliday (†January 1858, aged 84) was the leading merchant in Sanquhar. A native of Annan, he moved to Sanquhar towards the end of the 18th century. His name appears as a witness to a disposition to William Broom, dated April 5, 1797, where he is described as a ‘merchants clerk.’ He was entered a burgess of Sanquhar on 12 September, 1800 when he commenced business as a provision dealer and general merchant in a shop in the High street, where he also became the town’s postmaster. A good businessman and strictly conscientious in all his dealings, he is said to have stocked only the best of commodities. He married Mary Broom (†August 1810, aged 24), the eldest daughter of William Broom, merchant in Sanquhar; they had a son who died in infancy in 1811 and a daughter, Janet, who became the wife of the Revd David Murray Croom, minister of the South U.P. Church, Sanquhar, and latterly of Portsburgh U.P. Church, Edinburgh. On the day of Halliday’s death work at the town’s Crawick Mill, which he owned and which traded under the name of the Sanquhar Carpet Co, was stopped and the company was subsequently dissolved in April 1859. (T. Wilson, Memorials of Sanquhar Kirkyard, Dumfries, 1912). 1076
George Amos, tobacconist, Market street; he and his son, George Amos Jr, are shown as voters in The Haddington County List for 1834 and are listed as being aged 60 and 30 respectively in the East Lothian 1841 Census (where ages were
rounded down to the nearest 5 years). George Pringle, tobacconist, High street. Robert Richardson, Custom Stone, grocer, tea, spirit and wine merchant. 1077
Robert Taylor, wine and spirit dealer. Burntisland Vitriol Co, one of Scotland’s earliest chemical works, was established in the late 1780s and the business was acquired by four businessmen, Alexander and John Pitcairn, Edinburgh merchants, Robert Pitcairn, an Edinburgh underwriter, and David Low, a former merchant of Dundee. Alexander Pitcairn (†April 1819, aged 72) was the manager of the company and by May 1805 had bought out the interests of the other partners. He had become a councillor of Burntisland in 1800 and served as the town’s provost from 1802-13. By the 1820s the works had closed and the buildings converted to cottages (Harris, CTCJ Fall 2010, pp.6-11). P. Henderson, tea, coffee and spirit warehouseman, Thistle street, widow Ann listed in 1851 Census as aged 53. Thomas Ronald, grocer, tea, spirit and wine merchant, born in Colinsburgh on New Year’s Day 1786, listed in 1851 Census as aged 65, his wife, Matilda (aged 67) and daughter Elizabeth (aged 34, b. Kirkcaldy) also listed. J.M. Sharp, tea, tobacco and snuff merchant. 1078
Robert Johnston, grocer, tea and spirit dealer. 1079
John Meiklejohn, merchant (†September 1800), wife’s name Janet (née Ross, †July 1818). 1080
Revd Robert Boog, DD (1746-1823), b. Edinburgh, ordained minister of the Abbey Church, Paisley, in April 1774. The inspiration for the token was undoubtedly Thomas Wright (Dykes, SNC July-August 1996, pp.196-7). Although it proclaims to be a ‘Penny of Scotland’ in reality it is a private issue with no promise of redemption. Its only association with Kirkcaldy is because it features the head of Adam Smith (1723- 90), the economist and author of Wealth of Nations. 1081
James Hardie, tea and sugar merchant, married Rachel Coventry, youngest daughter of David Coventry of Pittendreich, in Cupar on 30 March 1819. He was declared bankrupt in February 1825. 1082 W. & G. Meikle, ironmongers, grocers, tea, spirit and wine merchants. Andrew Webster, chandler, tea, spirit and wine merchant. John Wishart, grocer, tea, spirit and wine merchant. 1083
Mackintosh, Inglis & Wilson, traditionally termed sailcloth and textile manufacturers at Citadel Works by previous writers but now known to be grocers on East street (ex inf. Jon Lusk), received four orders of tokens from Matthew Boulton, in December 1793, November 1794, October 1795 and February 1796 (Doty, CTCJ September 1998, pp.34-8). The tokens were designed by C.H. Küchler. 1084
The original Fort George, built by Cromwellian troops in the 1650s, was located by the harbour in Inverness. The present Fort George, located 11 miles away on an island spit of land jutting into the Moray Firth, was conceived in the aftermath of the battle of Culloden. Built between 1748 and 1769 at a colossal cost estimated to be adjacent to £200,000, today it is an army barracks. 1085
The girl on the token is a depiction of Mary, Queen of Scots, dressed in the clothes of her laundry-maid, in her bid to escape Loch Leven castle in April 1568 (Dykes, SNC November 1996, pp.406-7). 1086
Thomas Scott & Co, cotton manufacturers from Ulster, erected a mill in Ann street c. 1790. Now known as Mill House and
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