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Addison". Boswell was referring to Joseph Addison (1672-1719) (Link), publisher of The Spectator (1711-1712), a periodical which Boswell had read and admired much. I take it that he meant that Dalrymple was of the same sound, honest and admirable mind as Addison had been. When he received a positive response from Dalrymple it gave him "much satisfaction and a good opinion of myself, to find that a man of so much true worth and even piety had my interest at heart and was willing to keep a correspondence with me." (LJ150263) In a letter to Boswell of December 2, 1763, Dalrymple described his own state of mind as follows: "I am happy; I go my way in peace; I apply myself to the duties of society, and in filling the empty places of my brain with useful studies, I close it to metaphysical chimeras. Do thou likewise, my dear friend, and be happy; as happy as your very humble and most affectionate Dav: Dalrymple". External links: DAVID DALRYMPLE, LORD HAILES - at LoveToKnow Significant Scots: Sir David Dalrymple Dalrymple family tree - from Stirnet Newhailes Literature: Some of David Dalrymple's writings can be found via the Abebooks used books search engine. Search for author David Dalrymple, and ignore the modern titles about Marriage and Organic Chemistry. And note that the Sir David Dalrymple who published a few titles between 1705 and 1721 was the 1st Lord Hailes, David's grandfather and sometime Lord Advocate. Notes: Note 1: Newhailes was built in 1686 by architect James Smith for his own use. Dalrymple's grandfather, also named David Dalrymple, bought it in 1707, and it remained in the family until it was acquired by the National Trust in 1996. The last baronet, Sir Mark Dalrymple, died without issue in 1971, and Newhailes was finally sold to the National Trust by his widow Lady Antonia Dalrymple. The famous library, consisting of more than 7,000 items, was transferred to the National Library of Scotland in 1972. Note 2: Dalrymple considered Alexander Boswell his friend at least as early as 1754 when, on February 14 of that year, he wrote in his commonplace-book "My friend Mr. Alex. Boswell, of Auchinleck, admitted a Lord of Session. He has told me that it was by the interest of the Duke of Newcastle. For once at least his Grace [then Prime Minister] judged right." (Boswelliana, p. 5) 31. Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, 6th Bart. 1776-78 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Forbes Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet (1739–1806) was a Scottish banker, son of a Scotch advocate and baronet, born in Edinburgh; became partner in the banking firm of Messrs. John Coutts & Co.; two years later a new company was formed, of which he rose to be manager, and which in 1830 became the Union Bank of Scotland; he is author of a Life of his friend Beattie, the Scottish poet, and of "Memoirs of a Banking-House". http://www.hbosplc.com/abouthbos/History/BoS%20Tree/William_Forbes_James_Hunter.asp Sir William Forbes, James Hunter & Co The banking company Sir William Forbes, James Hunter & Co owes its origins to the merchant and banking firm of John Coutts & Co., into which both Sir William Forbes and James Hunter (later Sir James Hunter-Blair) were apprenticed in 1754. John Coutts & Co. originated as a partnership in 1723, or earlier, and, through a series of changes and renewals was known by 1749 as Coutts Brothers & Co. Although Forbes' apprenticeship had expired in 1759, he remained without a salary in the expectation of a partnership being offered. He was eventually given a one-eighth partnership with Patrick and John Coutts and John Stephen in March 1761, but with John Coutts' death in the autumn of that year (aged only 30), the firm faced serious difficulty. John Stephen was not particularly capable and Patrick Coutts, who was based in London, had become physically and mentally incapacitated. The running of the Edinburgh business was therefore increasingly left in the hands of William Forbes and James Hunter, although one was only a junior partner and the other not even that. The firm was clearly on an unsatisfactory footing and in 1763 the Edinburgh firm was re-constituted as John Coutts & Co. The partners were Sir William Forbes, James Hunter, Robert Herries and John Stephen and it was under the patronage of J. & T. Coutts in London. This patronage was withdrawn in 1766, however, as a result of a number of disagreements, which were mainly connected with Herries' scheme for the London Exchange Banking Co, and it was decided that from January 1773 the company name would change to Sir W. Forbes, J. Hunter & Co. The business of the company had grown steadily from 1754, when Sir William Forbes first entered its service: the balance sheet totals were £39,832 in 1754, £58,362 in 1764 and £84,604 in 1772. In April 1762 it was decided to withdraw the company from the grain trade and concentrate solely on banking. In 1782 the company began to issue its own notes, and the circulation by December of that year reached £82,750. Sir James Hunter-Blair died in 1787. By then, the other partners were James Bartlet and John Hay (brother-in-law of Forbes). On Hunter-Blair's death, Lewis Hay was taken on as a partner and on James Bartlet's death in 1788, Samuel Anderson, merchant in 36
Edinburgh, joined the partnership. The way in which the company weathered the crises of 1793 and 1797 is described by Sir William Forbes in his Memoirs, which cover the period to 1803. Following the death of Sir William in 1806, the senior role in the firm was assumed by his son (also Sir William), who was a great friend of Sir Walter Scott. The younger Sir William died in 1828 and in 1838 the company formed a junction with the Glasgow Union Banking Company. They eventually merged in 1843 with the (by then) Union Bank of Scotland, but the valuable Edinburgh connections of Sir William Forbes, James Hunter & Co were maintained by the establishment of a corresponding Edinburgh head office of the Union Bank. There is an extensive archive relating to the Bank of Scotland, including material relating to Sir William Forbes, James Hunter & Co. For further information see HBOS Group Archives. http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/forbes_william.htm FORBES, SIR WILLIAM, of Pitsligo, an eminent banker and citizen, was born at Edinburgh on the 5th of April, 1739. He was descended by the father’s side, from a younger branch of the ancient and respectable family of Forbes of Monmusk, the proprietors, at the close of the seventeenth century, of the noble barony of that name, on the banks of the Don, in Aberdeenshire; and by his paternal grandmother, from the still older and more dignified family of the lords Pitsligo, in the same county. His mother was also a branch of the family of Forbes of Monmusk, one of the first families in Scotland who were invested with the badge of Nova Scotia baronets, which still is worn by their descendents. His father, who was bred to the bar, and was rising into eminence in that profession, died when he was only four years of age, leaving his mother, then a young woman, with two infant sons, and very slender means of support. She lived at first at Milne of Forgue, on the estate of Bogny in Aberdeenshire, with the proprietor of which territory she was connected through her mother, and afterwards fixed her residence at Aberdeen, with her two sons, where she remained for several years, superintending their education. While there, the younger son, who is represented as having been a most engaging boy, died, to the inexpressible grief of his mother, leaving her remaining hopes to centre on Sir William, then her only child. Though reared in confined and straitened circumstances, Sir William had not only the benefit of an excellent education, but was under the immediate care and superintendence of the most respectable gentlemen in Aberdeenshire. His guardians were lord Forbes, his uncle lord Pitsligo, his maternal uncle Mr Morrison of Bogny, and his aunt’s husband Mr Urquhart of Meldrum, who were not only most attentive to the duties of their trust, but habituated him from his earliest years to the habits and ideas of good society, and laid the foundation of that highly honourable and gentlemanlike character which so remarkably distinguished him in after life. It has been often observed, that the source of every thing which is pure and upright in subsequent years, is to be found in the lessons of virtue and piety instilled into the infant mind by maternal love; and of this truth the character of Sir William Forbes affords a signal example. He himself uniformly declared, and solemnly repeated on his death bed, that he owed every thing to the upright character, pious habits, and sedulous care of his mother. She belonged to a class formerly well known, but unhappily nearly extinct in this country, who, though descended from ancient and honourable families, and intimate with the best society in Scotland, lived in privacy, and what would now be deemed poverty, solely engaged in the care of their children, and the discharge of their social and religious duties. Many persons are still alive, who recollect with gratitude and veneration these remnants of the olden times; and in the incessant care which they devoted to the moral and religious education of their offspring, is to be found the pure and sacred fountain from which all the prosperity and virtue of Scotland has flowed. Both Sir William’s father and his mother were members of the Scottish episcopal church; a religious body which, although exposed to many vexatious and disabilities since the Revolution in 1688, continued to number among its members many of the most respectable and conscientious inhabitants of the country. To this communion Sir William continued ever after to belong, and to his humane and beneficent exertions, its present comparatively prosperous and enlarged state may be in a great measure ascribed. It is to the credit of that church, that it formed the character, and trained the virtues, of one of the most distinguished and useful men to whom the Scottish metropolis has given birth. As soon as the education of her son was so far advanced as to permit of his entering upon some profession, his mother, lady Forbes, removed to Edinburgh in October, 1753, where an esteemed and excellent friend, Mr Farquharson of Haughton, prevailed on the Messrs Coutts soon after to receive him as an apprentice into their highly respectable banking house—among the earliest establishments of the kind in Edinburgh, and which has for above a century conferred such incalculable benefit on all classes, both in the metropolis and the neighbouring country. The mother and son did not in the first instance keep house for themselves, but boarded with a respectable widow lady; and it is worthy of being recorded, as a proof of the difference in the style of living, and the value of money between that time and the present, that the sum paid for the board of the two was only forty pounds a year. At Whitsunday, 1754, as Sir William was bound an apprentice to the banking house, she removed to a small house in Forrester’s Wynd, consisting only of a single floor. From such small beginnings did the fortune of this distinguished man, who afterwards attained so eminent a station among his fellow citizens, originally spring. Even in these humble premises, this exemplary lady not only preserved a dignified and respectable independence, but properly supported the character of his father’s widow. She was visited by persons of the very first distinction in Scotland, and frequently entertained them at tea parties in the afternoon; a mode of seeing society which, although almost gone into disuse with the increasing wealth and luxury of modern manners, was then very prevalent, and where incomparably better conversation prevailed, than in the larger assemblies which have succeeded. At that period also, when dinner or supper parties were given by ladies of rank or opulence, which was sometimes, though seldom the case, their drawing rooms were frequented in the afternoon by the young and the old of both sexes; and opportunities afforded for the acquisition of elegance of manner, and a taste for polite and superior conversation, of which Sir William did not fail to profit in the very highest degree. It was an early impression of Sir William’s, that one of his principal duties in life consisted in restoring his ancient, but now dilapidated family; and it was under this feeling of duty, that he engaged in the mercantile profession. The following memorandum, 37
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