Author: DUNLOP, John
Biography:
DUNLOP, John (1755-1820: ODNB)
He was the youngest son of Provost Colin Dunlop (d 1777) of Carmyle, Old Monkland, Lanarkshire. His mother was Martha (Bogle) Dunlop (d 1768). He was born at Glasgow on 3 Sept. 1755 and baptised on 9 Sept. Nothing is known about his education but he worked with his brother James in their father’s Glasgow mercantile house. He became a member of Glasgow city council in 1784 and successively served as bailie, Lord Dean of Guild, and Lord Provost of Glasgow. Subsequently he became a collector of customs. In about 1780 he married Janet (or Jessie) Miller, the daughter of Sir Thomas Miller, a judge and politician; their son, John Colin Dunlop (1784-1842), wrote The History of Fiction (1814) and edited a volume of his father’s poems in 1836. Dunlop was known as a writer of songs and he was a member of the Glasgow Hodge Podge club which encouraged his literary work. He was living at Port Glasgow when he died on 4 Sept. 1820. (ODNB 10 Aug. 2024; ancestry.co.uk 10 Aug. 2024; Archibald Dunlop, Dunlop of the Ilk [1898]) SR