Author: Greenshields, John Boyd
Biography:
GREENSHIELDS, John Boyd (c. 1766-1845)
He was the son of John Greenshields, a Glasgow grocer, and was probably born in 1766. After being called to the Scottish bar in 1793, he was a very successful advocate. He married Jane Boyd on 27 Sept. 1799; she was heiress to the estate of Drum, Co. Dumbarton, and he became known as Greenshields of Drum. The couple had one daughter, Christiana Jane, born in 1800. Greenshields was Walter Scott’s (q.v.) Edinburgh neighbour. He died at home on Princes Street, Edinburgh, on 6 Mar. 1845 and was buried at St. Cuthbert's on 12 Mar. (Notes and Queries 2nd Ser., 7 [1859]: 104; ancestry.co.uk 1 Feb. 2019, 14 Jan. 2025) SR
Other Names:
- J. B. Greenshields
Books written (5):
Edinburgh/ London: Constable/ Longman and Rees, 1800
2nd edn. London/ Edinburgh: Cumming/ Constable, 1802
Edinburgh/ London: William Blackwood/ Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806
Boston: Samuel H. Parker, 1806
2nd edn. Edinburgh/ London: Mundell, Doig, and Stevenson/ Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, and J. Harris, 1808