John Sligo
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Life
He was born in 1794 in Leith the son of John Sligo of Carmyle (d.1808)[1] and his wife Christian Knox.[2] His father was a tea and spirit merchant trading on Broad Wynd just off the Shore.[3]
In 1820 his widowed mother was living at 9 Constitution Street in Leith.[4]
John lived at 5 Drummond Place in Edinburgh's Second New Town from the 1820s.[5]
In 1827 he became a member of the Highland Society. In 1832 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Thomas Allan.[6]
In 1857 he is listed as a Director of the Edinburgh to Bathgate Railway (part of the North British Railway).[7]
He died at 5 Drummond Place[8] in 1858 aged 63.
