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- Lord Provost of Glasgow 1655, 1667, founder of the town of Anderton near his estate of Stobcross. He was a great trader, spoken of as :The Merchant Baron", said to have imported the first white wine from France. With several other wealthy gentlemen, including Sir George Maxwel of Pollock, John Graham of Douglaston, and Ninian Anderson, his son, he established a great whaling industry with ships of as much as 700 tons. One was captained, "The Providence". by a nephew or cousin, John Anderson.
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