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MEMOIR OF 
It appears he shortlyafter 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 
Academy. 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, 1/65, 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. 
