John Jardine

• Birth Notes
  • of Hallside, Lanark.
    

• Death Notes
  • The old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry
    John Guthrie Smith and John Oswald Mitchell, 1878:
    
    THE property of George Jardine, Esq., is situated in the parish of Cambuslang and county of Lanark, and is distant about seven miles from the Cross of Glasgow.
    
    Hallside originally formed part of the manor of Drumsargat, which, after being in the hands of several families, came into the possession of the great house of Hamilton in the year 1455. From time to time several small estates have been feued off by this ducal family, and, towards the close of last century, Hallside was acquired by the well-known George Jardine.
    
    George Jardine of Hallside was born in 1742, and after being many years assistant to Professor Clow, succeeded him in the year 1787 in the chair of Logic and Rhetoric in the University of Glasgow. During the session he resided in his official house in the College, and he spent the summer months in the quiet retirement of Hallside. For thirty-seven years he filled the Logic Chair with honour to himself and lasting advantage to the numerous students who attended his lectures.
    
    His memory is held in respect and affection by all whom he taught, many of whom in after-life attained to useful and important positions, and few probably ever regretted the time spent in the class-room of this, zealous and excellent teacher. He resigned his Professorship in 1824, and died in 1827.
    
    John Jardine of Hallside, his son by Janet Lindsay his wife, succeeded to the estate. He was born in 1778, and passed Advocate early in the century, and was afterwards appointed Sheriff of Ross and Cromarty. He married a daughter of James Bruce of Kinnaird, the famous traveller in Abyssinia, after whom his son who succeeded him was named. He died in 1850, when the estate passed to his eldest son, James Bruce Jardine; on his death the present owner, George Jardine, his brother, merchant in Glasgow, succeeded.
    
    The original house at Hallside was built in 1790, and a considerable addition was made in 1840, since which time there has been no alteration.

• General Notes
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    1795 Snell Exhibitioner (bursary) to Balliol College, Oxford.

Details of John's family with Janet Maitland Bruce