William Glennie (1761 – 7 January 1828) was a teacher to

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and father to a number of

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n pioneers.

Early life

He was born, probably in March or April 1761 in

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, the son of John Glennie and Jean Mitchell. He was baptised at Dalmaik Kirk (Drumoak-Durris' Church) on the 7th of April 1761. He married Mary Gardiner on the 26th of June 1794 at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Richmond, Surrey. He and Gardiner had a large family of twelve, four of whom became Australian Pioneers (James, Henry, Alfred and

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). He died in 1828 in

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from August 1799 to April 1801, at his 'academy' in Dulwich Grove. The academy had originally been a Tavern called The Green Man, and had been converted by 1815. He was also a friend of the poet Thomas Campbell."Thomas Campbell" in ''A Book of Memories: Great Men and Women of the Age, from Personal Acquaintance'' (1871) pages 345-58
by

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1761 births 1828 deaths People from Drumoak Scottish schoolteachers 18th-century Scottish educators {{Scotland-bio-stub