35G Death 0/ Andrew Liddell, Esq. 



man, to be inserted in tlie Proceedings ; and tliat as a mark of respect to 

 the memory of its Treasurer, and an expression of sorrow for the loss it 

 has sustained, the Society do now adjourn till the next Ordinary Meeting, 

 ilr. Hastie, in seconding the motion, followed up the remarks of the 

 President in the same spirit ; and the Society accordingly adjourned 

 without proceeding to business. 



DEATH OF ANDREW LIDDELL, ESQ. 



Glasgow has lost one of its worthies by the death of Mr. Andrew 

 Liddell. This mournful event took place at his residence, Bardowie 

 House, on Wednesday morning the 15th of November. He became in- 

 disposed on Monday week, but his illness, which was a bilious fever, did 

 not assume an alarming aspect till Sabbath. His strength continued 

 gradually to sink till a few minutes after two o'clock on Wednesday 

 morning, when he expired. 



Mr. Liddell was born in 1786 in the village of Bainsford, near Falkirk, 

 where his father was a schoolmaster. He received the elements of his 

 education in that village and in Falkirk. When about thirteen years of 

 age he went to assist his father at Carron iron-works, where he had been 

 appointed a clerk. Here he remained till he was about eighteen years of 

 age, when he removed to Edinburgh, and obtained a situation as clerk 

 in a foundry. He next held a similar situation in the employment of 

 Eobert Anderson & Co., metal merchants, Leith. At this period, he 

 commenced to study for the medical profession, and through the con- 

 siderate kindness of his employers, to which he often reverted with 

 pleasure, he was allowed to write up his books at night in order that he 

 might have time for attending College during the day. He was diverted 

 from his purpose of becoming a surgeon, after he had attended one or 

 two of the classes in the University, by visiting Glasgow, where he was 

 offered a partnership in an ironmongery establishment in Coach Court, 

 Gallowgate. He closed with the offer, and settled in Glasgow about 

 1814 or 1815. In a few years all the partners retired, and his half- 

 brother, Mr. Eobert M'Laren, advanced capital, and went in as a sleep- 

 ing partner, under the firm of Andrew Liddell & Co. In 1826, Mr. 

 Liddell removed his place of business to 102 Argyle Street, his workshop 

 being behind the front shop ; but when the Arcade was projected in 

 1828, the workshop was removed to Washington Street, where the 

 business of iron and brass founding was carried on, together with the 

 manufacture of malleable iron pipes, the most extensive in Scotland. He 

 had been making iron pipes in the usual way, when a new mode of 

 welding was patented by Mr. Eussell of Wednesbury in Staffordshire. 

 Mr. Eussell commenced a process against Mr. Liddell ; but, by the inter- 

 ference of friends, the connection which began with a law-suit ended in 



