George Glas Sandeman, Sr.
(1792-1868)
7 May 1861

Volume 3, page 208, sitting number 3523.

Born on 20 October 1793, George Glas Sandeman was baptised at Perth in Scotland on 7 November 1792. the son of John Glas Harris Sandeman and Helen née Robertson. In 1790 his uncles George and David Sandeman had founded a succesful business importing wines from Portugal (though David had soon left to found the Commercial Bank of Scotland).

On 27 April 1829 at St Pancras New Church ‘George Glas Sandeman, Esq., of St Swithin’s-lane’ married ‘Eliza, eldest daughter of Albert Forster, Esq., of  Upper Woburn-place’ (Morning Post, 28 April 1829). Their first child was born the following year at the couple’s residence in Bloomsbury’s Mecklenburgh Square.  In all, their marrige produced four sons and four daughters.

When the head of the family firm, George Sandeman, died in 1841 it was his nephew George Glas Sandeman who took over the company.

When the census was taken in 1861 George and Eliza were living at 15 Hyde Park Gardens in Paddington with two of their children and eleven servants, including a butler, a footman and an under-footman. George gave ‘Merchant in Portugal’ as his profession.

On 9 January 1868 George Glas Sandeman died, aged 75, at his residence, 15 Hyde Park Gardens. An announcement of his death in the Pall Mall Gazette (10 January 1868) describes him as ‘of Westfield, South Hayling, Havant, and 20 St Swithin’s Lane, London.’ His estate was originally valued at £400,000 but was later resworn at £300,000.