![]() Having been an active supporter of the revolution, he was knighted by William III in 1698, and was appointed to one of the judgeships of the commissary or consistory court in Edinburgh. In 1685 he was chosen commissioner for the burgh to the Scottish parliament, and sat no less than twelve times. Born in 1648, James was apprenticed in 1665 to Walter Ewing, a writer to the signet he was elected provost of Dumbarton in 1683, and filled that office until 1686, when the ordinary election was superseded by James II. Sir James Smollett (1648–1731), first of Bonhill. The family's influence had been considerably extended by the novelist's grandfather, An ancestor, Tobias, grandson of John Smollett, a prominent citizen and bailie of Dumbarton in 1516, was slain in February 1603 in the conflict at Glenfruin. ![]() ![]() ![]() SMOLLETT, TOBIAS GEORGE (1721–1771), novelist, came of a family long possessed of much local importance in Dumbartonshire. ![]()
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