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John Glassford
John Hamilton Glassford was the first occupant of 7 Moray Place, being there around 1862-3, but gone by 1865.
He was born in 1827 in Glasgow to Alexander Glassford and Catherine McDonald, the fifth of ten children. His great grandfather George was the elder brother of John Glassford of Dougalston, the (in)famous Glasgow tobacco lord and slave owner, after whom Glassford Street was named.
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