James Glassford
James Glassford (1771 – 1845) was a Scottish legal writer and traveller. Life. He was son of John Glassford of Dougalston by his third wife, Lady Margaret Mackenzie, sixth daughter of George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie. Glassford was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1793, and became sheriff-depute of Dumbartonshire. He succeeded to Dougalston on the death of his elder brother Henry in 1819. Glassford was one of the commissioners of the Royal Commission of inquiry into the state of education in Ireland, and in that capacity visited Ulster, Leinster, and Munster in 1824 , and Connacht in 1826. He also acted as one of the commissioners appointed (1815) for inquiring into the duties and emoluments of the clerks and other officers of the courts of justice in Scotland. He died at Edinburgh on 28 July 1845. Works. Glassford published: Glassford also published "Elegiæ", no place or date (pp. 31; another edition, pp. 39).