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Old Photograph Milngavie Scotland
Old photograph of Milngavie, Scotland. A Scottish town in East Dunbartonshire, on the Allander Water, at the north western edge of Glasgow. James Grahame, Lord Easdale was born in March 1696 the son of John Grahame near Milngavie and his wife, Margaret Nisbet. and was was baptised in Glasgow on 26 March 1696. In October 1719 he enrolled as a burgess and guild brother in Glasgow. He trained as a lawyer passing the Scottish bar as an advocate in February 1723. He was then known as James Grahame of Kilmannan. On 3 June 1749 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice adopting the title Lord Easdale, in place of the late Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston. Grahame's connection to the island of Easdale is unclear. He died on 15 August 1750.
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