Biography
Merchant and sometime four-time provost of Montrose for a total of 22 years. Possibly the son of John Gleig (1654-1737) and Isobel ? (1683-1761).
Adam Glegg married (1757) Anne Smith (1738-1811) with whom he had seventeen (!) children.1
- 1These details are all taken from "Ancestors (suggested) of Provost Adam Glegg, with notes" by Marion Moir.
Life with Boswell
Boswell wrote in his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides that on August 21, 1773, he and Dr Johnson "met Mr Gleg, a merchant here [in Montrose]. He went with us to see the English chapel." The identifiation of "Mr. Gleg" with Adam Glegg is likely if not absolutely certain.