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William Alexander Clouston
Clouston, William Alexander 1843-1896, William Alexander Clouston was born in 1843 at Stromness of an old Orcadian family. He was the fourth of five children of Captain John Clouston, a ship-master from Stenness. His mother was from Forfar, Montrose. His father died when he was ten and it was probably then that the rest of the family moved to Glasgow where he was to live and work for the rest of his life. At age seventeen Clouston was working as a clerk in marine insurance and at twenty-seven, in the 1871 Census, he is still listed as a mercantile clerk. He was engaged in commercial pursuits in Glasgow and London, but relinquished these to engage in journalism and literature. From 1871 to 1879 he edited several Scottish provincial newspapers and was a writer for the Glasgow Herald, Evening Times etc.
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