William Glennie (7 April 1761 – 7 January 1828) was a teacher to

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and father to a number of

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n pioneers.

Early life

He was born 1761 in

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, the son of John Glennie and Jean Mitchell. He married Mary Gardiner in 1794 at St. Mary Magdalene Church in

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. He and Mary had a large family of twelve, four of whom became Australian Pioneers (James, Henry, Alfred and

Benjamin Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...

). He died in 1828 in

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from August 1799 to April 1801, at his 'academy' in Dulwich Grove. The academy had originally been a Tavern called The Green Man, and had been converted by 1815. He was also a friend of the poet

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by

Samuel Carter Hall Samuel Carter Hall (9 May 1800 – 11 March 1889) was an Irish-born Victorian journalist who is best known for his editorship of ''The Art Journal'' and for his much-satirised personality. Early years Hall was born at the Geneva Barracks in Wat ...

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1761 births 1828 deaths People from Kincardine and Mearns Scottish schoolteachers 18th-century Scottish people {{Scotland-bio-stub