Person:Robert Cowan (60)

From “Short biographical notices of the principal merchants, manufacturers etc of Glasgow in 1783”: Robert Cowan, husband of Helen McCaul, was son of Robert Cowan, brewer (b. 1735), who married Lillias, daughter of Dr. Alexander Horsburgh. Scotlandspeople: Will of Robert Cowan, merchant, Glasgow, husband of Lillias Horsburgh, reg. 8mar1814, Glasgow. From: “Short biographical notices of the principal merchants, manufacturers etc of Glasgow in 1783”.

ROBERT COWAN. - In Tait's Directory, 1783, Mr. Cowan is designated dealer in victual, Grahamston. He was an extensive grain dealer, and the large brewery at Grahamston belonged to him. He also owned the property upon which the brewery was situated as far west as Hope Street; and he acquired the estate of Nethercroy, in Dumbartonshire, which was his country residence. Mr. Cowan was of an old Glasgow family. He was born in 1735. In 1763 he married Lillias, daughter of Dr. Alexander Horsburgh, Glasgow, and had a numerous family. His son, John, was a partner in the great Brewery Company of Anderston. His fourth son, Robert Cowan, surgeon, married, in 1795, Helen, daughter of the Rev. John M'Caul, D.D., Tron Church, Glasgow. The eldest son of the family - Robert Cowan, M.D., born 1796 - was Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the University of Glasgow, and was the author of "Vital Statistics of Glasgow." He died in 1841. His only surviving son, and the only member of the Cowan family connected with Glasgow, is John B. Cowan, M.D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Glasgow, who now resides at Helensburgh. Robert Cowan was one of the first Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce, and took much interest in the institution. He was also a member of the Merchants' House and a director of the Town's Hospital. He died at Nethercroy in 1813.

1. ↑ Will or testament, Scotland.
2.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008).
3.   International Genealogical Index. ( The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, 1999-2008)
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