Adam Rolland, of Gask

Name: 
Adam Rolland, of Gask
Occupation: 
Advocate
Banker
Philanthropist
Biographical Info: 
The Scott Originals
Biographical Notes: 
Son of Adam Rolland of Luscar and Gask; never married. Advocate July 28, 1758; Deputy Governor of the Bank of Scotland; rejected several invitations to the bench. Inspired Guy Mannering's Pleydell.
Rolland, Ad. (Adam), 1734-1819
Dates of Existence: 
1734CE to 1819CE Aug 19th

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Grant v. Thomson (Advocate for Pursuer)
Allan v. Stewart (Advocate for Pursuer)
John Syme v. Anne Ranaldson Dickson (Advocate for Defender)
Samuel Hawkins, and Others, Personal Creditors of the late John, Earl of Glencairn v. Simon Taylor, and Others, Trustees of William Cunningham Cunningham Graham (Named in case documents)
Thomas Beattie v. Thomas Tod (Advocate for Pursuer)
Agnes Watson v. Mary Rae (Advocate for Defender)
Stewart v. Carrick (Advocate for Pursuer)
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Robert Carrick v. John Carse (Advocate for Defender)
Corbet v. MacKenzie (Advocate for Pursuer)
William Cunninghame and Co. v. James Craig of Baidland (Advocate for Defender)
Chalmers, Leslie, & Seton v. Creditors of George Chalmers (Advocate for Respondent)
Drew v. Calder (Advocate for Defender)
Mitchell v. Kerr and Shearer (Advocate for Defender)
Creditors of Moncreiffe v. Moncreiffe (Advocate for Defender)
John and Ursula Smith v. James Marshall (Advocate for Defender)
Charles Addison and Sons v. William Duguid and Others (Advocate for Pursuer)
M'Harg v. Marquess of Tweeddale (Advocate for Petitioner)
Chatto v. Officers of the State, and Potts (Advocate for Defender)

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