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During the 1790s Ewing went into business with his father, but around 1803 established the West India trading firm James Ewing & Co with partner
William Mathieson. Ewing was instrumental in the 1807 establishment of the pro-slavery lobbying group the Glasgow West India Association. He served as
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merchant and bankruptcy specialist Walter Ewing and his wife
Margaret, née Fisher. Walter Ewing assumed the additional surname Maclae on inheriting the Cathkin estate from his uncle Walter Maclae in 1790. After Walter Ewing Maclae's death in 1814, James Ewing's older brother, a slave holder and
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Memoir of James Ewing Esq., of
Strathleven, formerly Lord Provost of Glasgow, and M.P. for that city, LL. D. of the University of Glasgow: with a series of letters written while on a tour in Italy, Switzerland, by Macintosh Mackay, Published by James Maclehose, 1866,
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In 1827, Ewing had presented the
University of Glasgow with £100 to establish the Ewing Gold Medal which is still awarded annually for historical essays, alternately in Medieval and Modern History.
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Ewing lived in
Crawford mansion on Queen Street in Glasgow for many years. The house was famous for its rookery, and Ewing consequently became known as Craw Ewing. In 1824 Ewing built
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Ewing was twice elected Dean of Guild of the
Merchants' House, was Lord Provost of Glasgow (1831–1833), and was elected MP for Glasgow in 1832, which led to his denouncement in the
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secretary, chairman and director of the
Association at various times. Ewing was a plantation owner and slave holder in Jamaica, receiving considerable compensation under the
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The ONDB regards Ewing as "among the most financially successful of the city's élite nineteenth-century sugar/slavery aristocracy". His bequests included £17,500 to the
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in both his position as slave holder as well as an assignee and creditor of other plantation owners. He was also a shipping agent to the West Indies during the 1820s.
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In 1836 Ewing married Jane Tucker
Crawford (1812/3–1896). Jane was the daughter of James Crawford of Broadfield, Renfrew, who was also a Scottish merchant.
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View of the history, constitution, & funds of the
Guildry, and Merchants House of Glasgow, by James Ewing, published 1817 by an unknown publisher.
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plantation owner in Jamaica, was known as Humphrey Ewing Maclae. Ewing's cousin through his mother was prominent abolitionist
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Ewing was awarded an honorary LLD by the University of Glasgow in 1826. In March 1829, he was elected a Fellow of the
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Ewing was involved in the creation of the Glasgow Savings Bank, the Glasgow Bank, and the opening of the
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as an "absolute proprietor of numerous 'gangs' … of Slaves in the Colonies". He lost the seat in 1835.
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