Old Photograph Johnston Tower Scotland

Old photograph of Johnston Tower by Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish tower was built in 1813 by James Farquhar of Johnston on the Hill of Garvock. James, who came from an Aberdeen mercantile family, was in successful practice as a proctor in Doctors’ Commons, also called the College of Civilians, a society of lawyers practising civil law in London, England. He was in partnership with Joseph Sladen at 19 Bennett’s Hill until about 1820, when they were joined by John Irving Glennie. Since 1810, Farquhar had held the remunerative post of deputy registrar of the admiralty court, the duties of which were administered from his other office at 2 Paul’s Bakehouse Court. His elder brother William, born 1762, died 1838, was in partnership as a merchant at 12 St. Helens Place, Bishopsgate Street with their youngest half brother John Morice until about 1828. Their mother, widowed in 1768, had married David Morice, an Aberdeen advocate, in 1773. James died at his London home in Duke Street in September 1833.



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