George Bogle of Daldowie (1700–1784) was a Virginia merchant, a trader with the West Indies, and a considerable citizen of Glasgow, where he was one of the Tobacco Lords. As well as trading in tobacco he dealt in other Caribbean commodities, such as tan and sugar. He was an early partner in the Glasgow Tan Work, and in the Eastern Sugarhouse. He was Rector of the University of Glasgow three times between 1738 and 1750 and was the father of the young adventurer, George Bogle, private secretary to Warren Hastings, who led the first attempted British embassy from India to Tibet and the Emperor of China in 1774. The Bogles George Bogle, Junior, came from an ambitious family which had farmed, rented, tenanted then owned land in the west of Scotland for at least 200 years. They are well documented in the land rolls of the Archbishopric of Glasgow, who owned much of the land to the east of Glasgow. There is a curate, Patrick Bogle, of the "church of Caddir" mentioned in 1509. In 1510,"Thomas Bogyl" of Chedylstoun is mentioned. In 1555, "Isobell Bogyl" is mentioned in relation to "Daldowy Wester" and in 1569, "Wylzem Bogylle" is referred to as having "the lands of Carmyl, callet "Bogylis Hole". After the Reformation the Bogyle seem to have taken over their lands from the church. In 1690, an Act of the Scottish Parliament recorded the return of lands to "Tomas Bogle of Boglehole", after forfeiture (presumably having chosen the wrong side during the Civil Wars). A George Bogle, senior, died in 1707, and was buried at the east end of Glasgow Cathedral. This was the year of the Parliamentary Union between Scotland and England which opened up both England and the English Empire to ambitious Scottish merchants, from which the Bogles profited greatly. After George Senior, the family divided into three branches – the Shettleston branch, the Daldowie branch and the Carmyle, or Bogleshole branch. Each has a confusing fondness for certain first names — particularly Robert and George — but had (mostly) good fortune in trade and in marriages to Scotland's land, commercial and legal elites. The Bogles of Daldowie The lands of Easter Daldowie lie 5 miles east of Glasgow between the North Calder Water and the River Clyde . George Senior's father, Robert Bogle, was a considerable Glasgow merchant, having been Dean of Guild twice (in 1661 and