Robert Shedden Scrimgeour [SEP] sex or gender
Robert Shedden Scrimgeour
Robert Shedden Scrimgeour (31 January 1788 – 29 May 1863) was a Scottish aristocrat who claimed, as the eldest male heir of his line, to be the hereditary standard bearer of Scotland. Scrimgeour was a stockbroker and member of Lloyd's of London.
In 1826, Scrimgeour married Margaret, eldest daughter of James Wilson, professor of anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Margaret died on 26 June 1884. They had children Janet (youngest daughter), who died aged 50 on
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The case of James Montgomery.
The first case in Scotland of a runaway slave attempting to gain their freedom was that of Jamie or James Montgomery, later named 'Shanker' by Robert Shedden or later still as James Montgomery Shedden. Montgomery had been purchased by Shedden from Joseph Hawkins, a slave trader in Fredericksburg, Virginia, for £56 12s 6d in 1750. He had been baptised as 'Jamie Montgomery' by none other than the Reverend John Witherspoon in Beith. Robert Shedden objected to this as