James Dunlop 1762 - 1826
James had a close relationship with his cousins: Robert and James Dunlop (he named them  in his will). He lived at Linwood. His first cotton mill was the Gateside mill. He built the Linwood mill with workers’ lodgings etc in 1792 (this was destroyed by fire in 1802). He then entered into partnership with four other men and added a mill in Dovecothall in 1798 called the Levern Mill - (downstream from the Gateside Mill). He built a mill in the east of Glasgow by 1800 but sold this and built a more substantial steam powered mill in 1813 called Broomward Mill.
He brought his older three sons into co-partnership in 1818.  Robert was sent to America in 1821 to scout the growing industry there together with the theft of his industrial secrets and migration of skilled workers. His father said that he had gone himself in evidence to a Select Committee on Artizans and Machinery of the House of Commons in 1824. It is possible that he had used the reports from Robert to inform his evidence to the Committee. He recommended that the Combinations Act be repealed so that he could have a more open relationship with the workforce.
His oldest son James had died two weeks prior to him giving that evidence (aged 29).
His second son, Robert died the following year (1825 - aged 28).
James Dunlop (1762) wrote into his will a special finacial support for his son James's widow and three children.
He himself died on 2 July 1826.
His estate amounted to £20,465 - equivalent to £25,000,000 at 2020 prices.

Afternote:
Researching his life is confusing as there were so many James Dunlops living at that time. There was a cotton mill across the crossroad from the Broomward Mill owned by James Dunlop & Co. This James Dunlop was descended from Dunlop of Garnkirk, Tollcross,  Carmyle whose tobacco fortune had been lost by the loss of America in its war of independence. And there were two houses called Arthurlie House occupied by Henry Dunlops. James (1762)'s son Henry of Craigton lived at Arthurlie (Farm) House between 1860 and 1867. Henry (1747) Dunlop  (James 1762's uncle) bought (Upper) Arthurlie House in 1806. His son James (1793) Dunlop lived there till his death followed by his son Henry Barclay Dunlop till his death in 1915. This house still stands in Barrhead and is referred to as "Arthurlie House" by a number of sources.
It may also be of interest that James (1762)'s son James had married Margaret Tennant - the daughter of Charles Tennant. He discovered bleaching powder and founded a chemical industry dynasty.
  
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1694 James
                                           
         
1736 James 1738 Robert Thomas 1741 William 1747 Henry
Helen WITHERSPOON   Mary Barclay 
     
             
  1762 James d.1762 1762 Robert Carlibar  
d.1793 Bruce ELLIS    
                                                     
                          1793 James
1794 James 1796 Robert 1797 Cleland 1799 Henry   1800 Helen   1802 Charles   1805 John Rankin   1808 Robert Bruce       
                              1803 William   1807 Colin   1811 Margaret 1806   Upper
      1818 James Dunlop                             Arthurlie   Arthurlie
1819 Margaret 1820 James 1821 Charles  & sons formed     1821 USA       will 1826 d.1826           d.1827        
d.1824 d.1825       d.1831 Carlibar ill 1838       d.1835 1832 Henry  
     d.1912      d.1909  d.1877  d.1851   Barclay
    d.1851     Dunlop
d.1863 d.1867 d.1862 d.1876  
 
1871  
Carlibar sold  
d.1915