Background
Carrick was born in Glasgow in April 1787. His father was originally from Buchlyvie in Stirlingshire.
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John Carrick
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He was placed in the office of Nicholson, a Glasgow architect, while still young, leaving about 1805 for a clerkship in a counting-house. In 1807 he ran away, and walked to London, where a Scottish tradesman gave him a trial as shopboy. In 1825 prolonged litigation led to his insolvency.
As agent to manufacturers he visited the Highlands, and acquired the Gaelic language.
On returning to Glasgow in 1828 Carrick was engaged as sub-editor of the Scots Times. In 1833 he accepted the editorship of the Perth Advertiser, but quarrelled with the managing committee in a year, and in February 1834 started the Kilmarnock Journal.
He again fell out with the proprietors, and was attacked by paralysis of the mouth. In 1835 he returned to Glasgow, in bad health.
Carrick died 17 August 1837, aged 50.
