Adam Dawson (distiller)

He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and was in many ways a busy man despite being subject to severe rheumatism through all his life.

He took an active part in the business of the firm of A & J Dawson of St Magdalene Distillery, of which he was a principal partner.

Dawson published a series of letters in the Falkirk Herald which he called "Rambling Recollections of Past Times" and which were afterwards reprinted for private circulation.

[5] Following Dawson's death in 1873, the 493 acres (200 ha) estate of Bonnytoun was sold to Robert Meikel, a wood merchant from Glasgow, for £20,000.

He is buried on the south-east outer corner of St Michael's Church in Linlithgow with his wife, Helen Ramage.