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Andrew Macgeorge

1810–1891

A Glasgow lawyer with a deep love of local history, heraldry, and art, he turned careful research into books that still open a window onto Scotland’s past. Best known for Old Glasgow, he wrote with the eye of both an antiquary and a storyteller.

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Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses

Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses

by Andrew Macgeorge

About the author

Born in Glasgow on May 13, 1810, Andrew Macgeorge trained in law and joined his father's firm, later becoming its head before retiring in 1889. He was known as a strong ecclesiastical lawyer and took part in important church cases, while also building a reputation as an antiquarian writer and historian.

His interests reached far beyond legal work. Macgeorge contributed papers to the Archaeological Society of Glasgow, was skilled in heraldry, painted in watercolor, and produced caricatures that were admired by contemporaries. He also cared deeply about civic life in Glasgow and helped found the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, serving it for many years.

His books reflect that wide curiosity. They include Old Glasgow: the Place and the People (1880), Flags, their History and Use (1881), and a biography of the landscape painter William Leitch. The University of Glasgow awarded him an LL.D. just a few months before his death on September 4, 1891.