Robert Allason and Greenbank

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Provides an account of the business career of Robert Allanson and of the landed estate and great house at Greenbank which he acquired. Covers his emergence as a baker, trader and manufacturer, later tobacco merchant; his investment in land and great house; his problematic relationship with his brother, William; his financial difficulties; his giving up of Greenbank; the later acquisition of Greenbank by the Hamilton family. Includes family tree descending from John Allanson of Flenderhead in 17th century, and another of the Hamilton family. Chapters include: 'Farmers and gentlemen'; 'The original farms'; 'A baker in the Gorbals'; 'Port Glasgow'; 'Across the Atlantic'; 'A tobacco lord in Glasgow'; 'Greenbank Estate'; 'Rise and fall of a Virginia merchant'; 'The beleaguered estate'; 'The creditor owners'; 'The nineteenth century'; 'Held in trust'