Background
He was born at Cameron House, Bonhill in Dunbarton on 29 November 1801. He was the son of Admiral John Rouett Smollett (1767-1842) and Elizabeth Boyle, daughter of Patrick Boyle of Shewalton.
He was born at Cameron House, Bonhill in Dunbarton on 29 November 1801. He was the son of Admiral John Rouett Smollett (1767-1842) and Elizabeth Boyle, daughter of Patrick Boyle of Shewalton.
He appears in 1827 as an advocate. In the 1830s he was working in Edinburgh as an advocate and living at 14 Gloucester Place, a fine end-terraced townhouse in the Stockbridge area. In 1844 he appears on the committee of the Glasgow, Dunbarton and Loch Lomond Railway Company.
He died in the same house on 25 February 1881, and was buried in the Smollett family mausoleum in Alexandria, Dumbartonshire.
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He was a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Dunbartonshire from 1841 to 1859,
In 1835 he is listed as a member of the Highland and Agriculture Society of Scotland.