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Robert
Douglas
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Wayside marker is the term used to describe the ten cast-iron
indicators of four types confined to road junctions in the St
Andrews District of the Fife Turnpikes. The cast-iron plates are
fastened to their stone backing with iron clips, with one
free-standing plate supported from behind by an iron bracket sunk in
stone.
Two markers exist as Type I, at NO 524153 and NO
608083, headed respectively 'St. Andrews' and 'Grail'. Both are 3
ft. high, 1 ft. 11 in. across and 4 in. in depth. They stand at
junctions and the left and right sides give the names of farms,
villages and towns along each road in order. In PI. 21c the places
on or near the A918 appear on the left panel and those accessible
from A959 on the right. 'Robert Douglas, Engineer, Cupar' is the
legend along the top. Douglas was born at the Manse, Kilbarchan,
Renfrewshire, in 1822 and set up business in Cupar in 1846 or 1847.
Douglas moved to Kirkcaldy in 1855; beginning by manufacturing shot
and shell during the Crimean War, he branched into the construction
of paper-mill machinery, steam engines and, by the early 'sixties,
Corliss engines.
A visit to Calcutta by Douglas led to the
development of rice-milling machinery. A partnership with Lewis
Grant was formed in 1873 and under the name of Lewis C. Grant Ltd.,
the enterprise founded by Douglas continues to manufacture
rice-milling machinery and grain dryers, giving employment to some
eighty men.
Parents: Rev Robert Douglas and Jane Monteath
He married Frances Cumming and had a number of children,
including:
The following documents are held in the University of Dundee
archives (amongst others): There is a contract of copartnery between Messrs Robert
Douglas and Lewis Grant under the name of Douglas and Grant,
engineers and ironfounders. Dunnikier Foundry Works, Kirkcaldy
Jackson & Douglas [John Jackson and Robert Douglas], Cupar
MillsDissolution of partnership and assignation of lease,
Jackson & Douglas, 1851Agreement between Robert Douglas,
engineer, Kirkcaldy, and William Inglis, engineer, Edinburgh,
regarding manufacture and sale of Corliss Steam Engines and patent
circulating boilers, 1864Robert Douglas in petition for
exoneration and discharge as trustee on sequestered estates of
Messrs Key & Sons and George Andrew Key and Alexander Key.
Edinburgh. December 1880Memorandum by Robert Douglas, engineer,
Kirkcaldy, with reference to proposed amalgamation of the firms John
Key & Sons, shipbuilders and engineers, Whytebank and Kinghorn, and
Douglas & Grant, engineers, Dunnikier Foundry, Kirkcaldy. 1884
Agreement, with subsequent alterations, between
Messrs Douglas &
Grant, Dunnikier Foundry, Kirkcaldy, and Mark Wadia, Manchester and
Bombay, appointing him agent throughout the district of Bombay 1886
Draft heads of agreement for co-partnership in the firm of Douglas &
Grant, the partners being Lewis Grant, engineer, Kirkcaldy, David
Bonar, engineer, London, and David Landale, engineer, Leith 1893
Memorandum in relation to proposal to form a company to take over
from Douglas & Grant Ltd the business of their eastern agencies
March 1915
Research:
• This may be the Robert Douglas of
Robert Douglas
table waters. However, that may be the Robert Douglas who
married Mary Beveridge as her first husband.
See also:
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gratefully accepted
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