David George Sandeman

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

(1757–1835) was an 18th/19th century

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merchant who was a founder of Sandemans Port and one of the co-founders of the

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. His family were all

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s, an independent Christian sect, founded by one of their ancestors and sometimes called

Sandemanians The Glasites or Glassites were a small Christian church founded in about 1730 in Scotland by John Glas.John Glas preached supremacy of God's word (Bible) over allegiance to Church and state to his congregation in Tealing near Dundee in July 172 ...

Life

He was born on 28 June 1757 in

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the son of George Sandeman of Springland (1724-1803) and his wife, Jean Duncan of Seaside. His younger brother was George Sandeman (1765-1841). In 1790/91 they jointly founded the company of Sandeman's Port. In 1798 David left the company to found the

. Between 1805 and 1810 he moved to

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setting up David George Sandeman & Co at 11 Forth Street in the eastern

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. In 1810 he founded the

, originally housed at 22 Picardy Place at the head of

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. In 1835, shortly before his death, he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposer was

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. He died at 4 Melville Street in the West End of Edinburgh on 24 May 1835.

Family

He married twice, firstly to Hannah Sandeman (1765-1794) who is presumed to be his cousin. In 1797 he married Margaret Fraser of Dumballoch in Perth. Their daughter Margaret Chisholm Sandeman (b.1802) died in

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. Their son was David Chisholm Sandeman (1806-1852).David Sandeman
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References

1757 births 1835 deaths People from Perth, Scotland Scottish company founders Scottish bankers Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish Glasites 18th-century Scottish merchants 19th-century Scottish merchants {{Scotland-business-bio-stub