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Old Photograph Carbrook House Scotland
Old photograph of Carbrook House near Larbert located two and half miles from Falkirk, Scotland. Joseph Cheney Bolton, who was Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire between 1880 and 1892, lived in this house. Joseph, born in 1819, was a partner in the firm of Ker, Bolton, & Company, East India merchants, of Glasgow and London, England, he was a Justice Of The Peace for Stirlingshire and Lanarkshire. At the 1874 general election Bolton stood for Parliament in the Glasgow constituency, where he won by less than 1% of the votes. However, at the next general election, 1880, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Stirlingshire. He held the seat until he stood down at the 1892 general election. Bolton died at the age of 81 on 14 March 1901.
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