John Colin Dunlop
John Colin Dunlop FRSE was a Scottish advocate and historian.Life
He was born near Glasgow on 30 December 1785 the son of John Dunlop, of Rosebank, Glasgow, who was Lord Provost of Glasgow, 1794-1796.
John Colin was studious and reclusive. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1807 in 1807, but was only nominally at the Scottish bar. He became sheriff-depute of Renfrewshire in 1816 and served this role until his death.
He worked with the firm of Dunlop Rowand & Co at 63 St Vincent Street in central Glasgow.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1833 his proposers being Alexander Maconochie, Lord Meadowbank and Sir Thomas Dick Lauder.
In later life he lived at 12 India Street in Edinburgh's Second New Town.
He died in Edinburgh on 26 January 1842.Works
Dunlop wrote:
