KIRKWOOD, Harry Ashby (1806-1872) — Edinburgh
Seal engraver; wood engraver; engraver; lithographer. Produced Plan of the city of Edinburgh with all the recent and intended improvements 1846; Thomas Grainger, Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway. Plan and section of the proposed branch railway from Great Junction Street to the Upper Drawbridge in the town of Leith 1846; Thomas Grainger, ‘Edinburgh and Northern Railway plans and sections of the proposed branch railway from the Signal House Pier North Queensferry by Inverkeithing to the Dunfermline branch of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway at Dunfermline’ 1847, published by ‘W. & A. K. Johnston’.
Born in Edinburgh 14 Jul 1806, the son of Robert Kirkwood 1 and his wife Janet (Jess) Mitchell. He announced himself as a seal engraver seeking an apprentice from the family’s post-fire business address in 1828, noting that “having been bred by Mr [Laurence] Butters, whose superiority is so generally acknowledged, he hopes to be able to execute any orders with which he may be intrusted in such a manner as to secure future patronage” (Edinburgh Evening Courant, 19 Jul 1828). He was resident in Pitt Street with his mother, two sisters and a servant in 1841-1851, recorded as employing two men and two boys in 1851. He continued the ‘Kirkwood & Son’ business founded by his grandfather James Kirkwood from the death of his brother Robert Kirkwood 2 in 1843 to 1850, when he was succeeded by Alexander Scott. He had fully retired by 1861 and in 1871 was living in Lasswade with his brother Alexander, the two sisters, and a servant. He died 12 Oct 1872 and was buried at Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh, from Adele Cottage, Loanhead, 15 Oct 1872. (See BME 2011 for names in bold)
11 South St. Andrew Street, Edinburgh — 1828-1836
3 South St. Andrew Street, Edinburgh — 1837-1852
— 30 Pitt Street, Edinburgh (home) — 1841-1861
— Allch Cottage, The Fountain, Lasswade (home) — 1871
BNA. Census 1841-1871. LHD. NRS. SBTI. Tooley.