LUMSDEN

James (son of James Lumsden, engraver and stationer). b. 43 Argyll street, Glasgow 13 Nov. 1778; apprentice to his father, a partner in the busine 1799; a patron of Horatio MacCulloch and sir Daniel Macnee artists, and of Dugald Moore poet; lord provost of Glasgow 1843–45; president of Incorporated company of stationers, Glasgow 1815, 1822 and 1830; a founder of the Clydesdale bank 1838; founded a bursary in Glasgow univ. 1856; i ued The Glasgow commercial memorandum book 1816, an annual; author of American memoranda by a Mercantile Man 1844, preface signed J.L. d. St. Vincent st. Glasgow 16 May 1856. W. C. Macle house’s Memoirs of Glasgow men , ii 179–81 (1886), portrait ; The Glasgow Herald 19 May 1856 p. 6.