Author: DUNLOP, John
Biography:
DUNLOP, John (1755-1820: ODNB)
He was the youngest son of Provost Colin Dunlop of Carmyle, Old Monkland, Lanarkshire. His mother was Martha (Bogle) Dunlop. 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. 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