Reddie, James, 1775-1852

James Reddie was born on November 25, 1775, in Dysart, Fife, Scotland to John Reddie and May Burd. He was the principal town clerk and assessor to the Magistrates of Glasgow in 1804 having attained entry to the Faculty of Advocates in 1797. . He married Charlotte Marion Campbell on August 12, 1804. Together, they had eight children, including their second son, James Campbell Reddie, who left his family in 1845 to write early Victorian Homosexual Erotica in London. James Sr. paid the debts his son left behind and disinherited him. James Reddie died on April 5, 1852, at the age of 72. He is buried at the Glasgow Necropolis in Glasgow, Scotland.

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