Career
He was a stocking weaver by trade, and continued to work at his business until within a short period of his death, which occurred at Braidwood, near Carluke, Lanarkshire, 1 March 1861. He published ‘The Game of Draughts simplified and illustrated with practical diagrams,’ Lanark, 1848. Second edition, Glasgow, 1852—a work which was regarded as an authority on the subject of which it treats.
A third edition, revised and extended by Robert McCulloch, was published at Glasgow and New York City in 1878.