J.B. Mirrlees

J.B. Mirrlees
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Residence	Sauchiehall, Glasgow
Occupation	business
Society Membership membership ASL ordinary fellow left 1866.06.19 resigned elected_ASL 1864.06.14

Notes

House Notes

in A31/2/2 name crossed out R

Notes From Elsewhere

In 1840 an engineering partnership was founded in Glasgow to manufacture cane sugar machinery. This business was founded by three brothers, Peter, William and Andrew McOnie and the original title of the firm was P & W McOnie. Mr William, later Sir William McOnie, at one time Lord Provost of Glasgow, retired from the firm in 1848 and Mr J.B. Mirrlees became a partner. the new title of the firm then became McOnie and Mirrlees.
When Peter McOnie died in 1851, Mr Mirrlees appointed William Tait as manager and the firm continued as McOnie and Mirrlees until 1858 when Mr Tait became a partner. The name of the firm then changed to Mirrlees and Tait. Under this title and direction the house remained for ten years, when, on the failing health of Mr Tait, Mr Watson, later Sir W Renny Watson, was taken into partnership and the title of the firm became, in 1868, Tait and Watson. Mr Tait died in 1870 but the title of the firm remained unchanged until 1882.