McGlashan, Alexander
1815 – 1877
Originally a steel and copperplate engraver from 1841 until at least 1874, he worked also as a photographer from the early 1860's, collaborating with David Octavius Hill RSA on the 1862 album Towards the Further Development of Fine Art Photography. He used the spelling McGlashan until c.1862 after which it became McGlashon. He was the printer of a number of portrait prints published by Alexander Hill and had ashortlived partnership at 26 Clyde Street, Edinburgh with William Wilding, a copperplate printer, under the firm of McGlashan and Wilding. He was responsible for the photograph of Alexander Hill, standing beside an easel with the highly ornately framed engraving which Hill published after Thomas Duncan's painting of The entry of Prince Charles Edward Stuart into Edinburgh, the morning after the Battle of Preston[pans].(vide www.edinphoto.org.uk)
see also https://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/alexander-mcglashon - which references his 3 years from 1854-57 when he settled as a photographer in Melbourne, Australia. This article also suggests a birth year of 1811 but does not state where.
1841 Census suggests he was born in England and at given age of 30 in 1841 this would have been in 1811.
His birth in Scotland is not traced, but a contributor to Edinburgh Photographic Society states that he was born in Edinburgh.
