He was an Ulsterman,an old soldier, who started a general dealer's business in East Nort Street about 1830. In 1843, he gave up the general dealer's business and took to bookselling. He was an itinerant bookseller, with a horse and specially fitted cart, and visited all the towns in the north as far as Elgin, as well ast the fairs, but wintering for the most part in Aberdeen. When there he put up in a house of the Upperkirkgate. He 'was wont in the "sixties" to pitch his stall on the open space in front of the Flour-mill, where Grant's Buildings now stand in St Nicholas Street.' He fell under his cart on a slippery incline and died. He was believed to be about 80 at the time.
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date di attività1830
Attivitàitinerant bookseller
Risorsa on linehttp://www.nls.uk/ Scottish Book Trade Index online (list)