Person:Robert Dennistoun (1)

Robert DENNISTOUN (1756-1815) (Minute book of the Board of Green Cloth). Robert d. 15aug1815 (R. Kelly). Robert married Ann Penelope CAMPBELL. Ann was possibly daughter of Archibald Campbell of Jura (Genealogical and heraldic history of commoners, 1838) or daughter of Richard Campbell of Jura (Board of Green Cloth). Robert married Ann Penelope 2oct1797 at Glasgow (Latter day saints). Ann was b. abt 1756 (web). Anne Penelope Campbell of Jura was daughter of Archibald Campbell of Jura (b. 1744) and Sarah Campbell of St. Germains and Tofts (d. 1816) (Burke's Landed Gentry, 1952, web). Anne was possibly sister of Colin Campbell, who married Isabella Dennistoun. Robert and Ann had a son, James Robert “Ruffy” Dennistoun, who married Barbara Wilson Macredie in 1834; James and Barbara had a daughter, Ann Penelope Campbell Dennistoun, who married John Guthrie Smith (1834-1894) (A. Duncan). „Old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry“ (1878) was written mainly by John Guthrie Smith (1834-94) and John Oswald Mitchell. The Old Glasgow Exhibition (1894) was organized by a committee that included Alexander Wilson Gray-Buchanan (1851-1909), C.D. Donald (1848-95), John Oswald Mitchell (1826-1904) and John Guthrie Smith (1834-94).

Scottish archives have the wills of Robert Dennistoun, Glasgow merchant, reg 1816, and Anne Penelope Dennistoun alias Campbell, res. Edinburgh, relict of Robert Dennistoun, Glasgow merchant, reg 1863 Edinburgh (scotlandspeople). After Robert’s death, his interest in the firm George and Robert Dennistoun and Co. ceased 30apr1816, signed John Campbell, Colin Campbell, Ann P. Dennistoun, James Dennistoun, Robert’s trustees, and Richard Dennistoun (London Gazette).

From “Minute Book of the Board of Green cloth” (1891) by Colin Dunlop Donald (1848-1895): ROBERT DENNISTOUN. Robert Dennistoun, son of James Dennistoun, fourteenth of Colgrain, and brother of Richard Dennistoun, also a member of the Board of Green Cloth, born 1756, died 1815. He married Anne Penelope, daughter of Richard Campbell of Jura, and had issue, eight sons and six daughters. Among his sons was the late James Robert Dennistoun, a well-known and well-liked citizen, known to his friends as “Ruffy”. Mr. Dennistoun got this name from his wearing a fringe or “ruff” of beard under his chin. Robert Dennnistoun was a partner in the West India firm of George and Robert Dennistoun & Co. His house - or lodging, as it is called in the Directory of 1807 - was No. 6 Buchanan Street, on the west side, just above the counting house of John Campbell, Senior, & Company. lt was afterwards the Buchanan Street Hotel, where the Jumble Club met for a number of years.