U6 MEMOIR OF 



It appears he shortly after married, as we find him 

 immediately after speaking of Mrs Smellie.* Her 

 name was Jean Robertson, daughter of Mr John 

 Robertson, an army agent in London. The lady, 

 however, had no fortune ; and thus, with all the 

 inexperience of youth, did this young couple 

 brave the stern realities of life, he being twenty- 

 three, and his wife only seventeen years of age. 



By this marriage Mr Smellie had thirteen 

 children six sons and seven daughters, of whom 

 four sons and four daughters survived him. Mr 

 Alexander Smellie, his second born, but eldest 

 surviving son, is married, and has a family. 

 He carries on his father's profession of a printer. 

 His eldest daughter, Rebecca, married the late 

 Mr George Watson, an eminent portrait painter, 

 who was the first president of the Scottish 

 Acadeni}'. She died May 5, 1839, leaving seve- 

 ral children, one of whom, Mr William Smellie 

 Watson, inherits his father's talents as an artist, 

 and his grandfather's taste for Natural History, 

 which he cultivates with great ardour and enthu- 

 siasm. 



Finding his emoluments, as corrector of the 

 press, inadequate to his increasing wants as a 

 married man, on the 25th of March, 1765, Mr 

 Smellie commenced business in partnership with 

 Mr William Auld, who had been a fellow appren- 

 tice with him, as master printers, on which occa- 

 sion Dr Hope, and Dr James Robertson, the 



* She was full cousin of the present Mrs Oswald of 

 Dunnikier. 



