Sherriffs, John ♂
Education
Student United College 1775-1778 b, s, t. (Ternar).
Student St Mary’s College 1780-1785.
Birth/childhood
Possibly = John Shirreff born 1759 son of an East Lothian farmer. Spent youth in West Indies as a merchant. Succeeded father as lessee of Captainhead farm, Haddington.
Career
Possibly = John Shirreff. Spent youth in West Indies as a merchant. Succeeded father as lessee of Captainhead farm, Haddington. [Farmer]
Introduced improvements and published on agriculture. Published Surveys of Yorkshire and Orkney and Shetland Islands.
Death
Died 2.11.1818. Buried Prestonkirk.
Sources
- DNB