Original sentence: Born at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, he was the second son of Alexander Allan (1780-1854) of Saltcoats (a first cousin of the poet Robert Burns) and his wife Jean Crawford (1782-1856).Hugh's father was the captain and part-owner of a Brig which he named after his wife, 'Jean', and started the Allan Shipping Line in 1815 running supplies from Scotland to the British troops engaged in the Peninsular War.Soon afterwards he began running dry goods from Greenock to sell in Montreal, returning with Canadian produce to sell back in Scotland, a route which quickly became synonymous with the already rapidly expanding Allan Line.Three years later Hugh Allan arrived in Montreal to work as a clerk for grain merchant William Kerr
Edited sentence: Alexander Allan was a first cousin of Robert Burns and the father of Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt.Born at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, he was the second son of Alexander Allan (1780-1854) of Saltcoats and his wife Jean Crawford (1782-1856).By 1819 he had started the Allan Shipping Line, running dry goods from Greenock to sell in Montreal and returning with Canadian produce to sell back in Scotland, a route which quickly became synonymous with the Allan Line.In 1815 he was running supplies from Scotland to the British troops engaged in the Peninsular War.Originally a carpenter on the estate of Fairlie, North Ayrshire, Hugh's father moved the family to Saltcoats and became the captain and part-owner of a Brig which he named after his wife, 'Jean'.Three years later Hugh Allan was sent by his father to Montreal to work as a clerk for the grain merchant William Kerr