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 CHAPTER II

Summary of Mr. Colvin's Career

On his father's side, Mr. Colvin was of Scotch descent. His grandfather, Alexander Colvin, had married at Linlithgow, in 1749, the daughter of a clergyman in the north of Ireland, Elizabeth, known among her people as 'bonny Lizzie' Kennedy. They lived at Denovan, on the banks of the Carron, in the parish of Dunipace, in Stirlingshire, where Mr. Alexander Colvin owned large bleaching works. According to a writer in Chambers' Encyclopedia, the first bleach-field in Scotland was established by the Fletchers at Saltoun in East Lothian about 1730. Mr. Colvin's works were probably among the earliest to be set up in Scotland. The art came, like Lizzie Kennedy, from Ireland. Print-works, now in turn removed, afterwards occupied the site of the buildings which belonged to Mr. Colvin; and of him and his business there remains no longer any trace on the Carron, except graves in the little kirkyard, since stripped of its kirk, within the 'policies' of Dunipace House. It was not in Scotland, but in India, that the branch of the family with which we