Robert Dalglish (merchant)

Robert Dalglish (1770–1844) was a Scottish merchant and calico printer who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1830 to 1832.

[1] He was born in Glasgow in 1770 and apprenticed around 1784 to Andrew Stephenson a muslin manufacturer on Bell Street.

[2] In 1803, with his brother Alexander Dalglish and friend Patrick Falconer, bought 33 Scots acres of land from John Lennox (the land then known as Lennoxfield) and the wider area known as Lennoxtown.

He was a partner in the firm Dalglish Falconer & Co. running the Lennoxmill Printfield warehouse at 27 Ingram Street in Glasgow.

Dalglish lived at 25 St Vincent Place in the city centre.