William Trotter (cabinet-maker)

William Trotter of Ballindean JP DL (1772–1833) was a Scottish cabinet-maker who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1825 to 1827.

[4] William was born in Edinburgh on 10 November 1772 one of at least eleven children of Thomas Trotter (1724–1804) and his wife, Charlotte Knox.

His grandfather Thomas Trotter (1685–1767) was a major supplier of provisions and is recorded as supplying the Duke of Cumberland's army in the 1745 rebellion.

His eldest uncle, also William Trotter, was the Shore Dues Officer in Leith and lived at 79 Princes Street.

His brother Thomas Trotter joined the army and rose to the rank of Major General in the Royal Artillery.

[5] In 1810 he was living and trading in the small section of houses on the south side of Princes Street at its east end (later rebuilt as the North British Hotel).

[11] In July 1825 he was commissioned to provide furniture for the Chinese Room at the newly completed Kinfauns Castle, a neighbour to the Ballindean estate.

[17][13] His youngest son, Charles Trotter (b.1816) inherited the Princes Street store when he reached the age of 21 in 1837.