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XIII.— LATE ALEXANDER DENNISTOUN, ESQ. OF GOLFHILL, M.P.
Son of the late James Dennistoun of Golfhill, Deputy Lieutenant
and Justice of Peace for Lanarkshire, by Mary, daughter of the late
William Finlay of Moss, Stirlingshire, and cousin of the late Kirk-
man Finlay, M.P., Castle Toward. Mr. Dennistoun was born in
1790, and married in 1822 Eleanor Jane, daughter of John Thom-
son of Liverpool. He was educated at the University of Glasgow.
In conjunction with his brother John, M.P. for Glasgow, he for
many years took a leading interest in the business of the well-
known firm of J. & A. Dennistoun (founded in Glasgow by his
father about 1780). He was elected M.P. for the county of Dum-
barton in 1835, m opposition to Mr. Alexander Smollett of Bonhill.
Mr Alexander Dennistoun only sat in one Parliament owing to ill
health, and retired into private life, residing during the greater part
of each year at his villa on Gareloch. He had, with other issue,
James, and Walter who died in early life, Robert late of the nth
(Prince Albert's Own Hussars), who died in 1877, and Alexander,
now of Golfhill. The late Mr. Dennistoun succeeded his father in
1836, and having increased the property of Golfhill by the purchase
of adjoining lands, began to form a new suburb of Glasgow, to which
he eave the name of " Dennistoun." He also inherited an estate in
Linlithgowshire, on part of which the village of Armadale is built,
and two small properties in Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire. Mr.
Dennistoun died 15th July 1874, aged 84.