. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE %n Smmial, BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND No. 470. Vol. XIX. 78.] JUNE 25, 1891. [Published Week!;/. (ffitittaxml, Wiotxan, t^r. THE LATE ME. J. M. McPHEDRAN. We have already alluded to the death of the ' Renfrewshire Bee-keeper' on page 256 of the Bee Journal, and are now able to give a few particulars of his life which, we hope, will in- terest our readers. Mr. McPhedran was horn at Greenock in 1827. His father was Archibald McPhedran, whose ancestors were from Inverary. His mother was Miss Mary McCulloch, daughter of Mr. Joh
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE %n Smmial, BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND No. 470. Vol. XIX. 78.] JUNE 25, 1891. [Published Week!;/. (ffitittaxml, Wiotxan, t^r. THE LATE ME. J. M. McPHEDRAN. We have already alluded to the death of the ' Renfrewshire Bee-keeper' on page 256 of the Bee Journal, and are now able to give a few particulars of his life which, we hope, will in- terest our readers. Mr. McPhedran was horn at Greenock in 1827. His father was Archibald McPhedran, whose ancestors were from Inverary. His mother was Miss Mary McCulloch, daughter of Mr. John McCulloch, of Craigbet, Bridge of Weir. He had two sisters and a brother, the latter dying of fever at the age of fourteen. Mr. McPhedran was educated under Dr. Brown at the Grammar School in Greenock, â¢â and when his education was completed he en- tered the mercantile office of Mr. McCurn, Excise Buildings, Greenock. There he remained some years, and this period of his life was most useful to him, for it laid the foundation of those exact business methods which distinguished him all through his after-life, and which those who have had anything to do with him could appre- ciate. In 1854 he gave up business and retired 1:o Craigbet, which he had inherited. Since that time he lias led the life of a country' gentle- man, taking special interest in Ayrshire cattle and Leicester sheep, for which he obtained a good many valuable prizes at various agricul- tural shows. It was soon after he settled at Craigbet that he took up bee-keeping, into which he entered with an enthusiasm which he retained to the end. Even during his illness he did not forget his bees, alluding to them in a letter he ad- dressed to us so late as the 11th of April last, in which he mentions the mildness of the weather, and his seeing the bees busily flitting amongst the crocuses, while he was a prisoner indoors, suffering from bronchitis. It is interesting to know how he was first induced to take a special
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