Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p George Bogle, of Daldowie, Junior (1701–1782) was a Virginia merchant, a West India trader, and a considerable citizen of Glasgow, where he was one of the Tobacco Lords. As well as trading in tobacco he dealt in other Caribbean commodities, such as sugar. He was an early partner in the Glasgow Tan Work, and in the Eastern Sugarhouse.He was Rector of the University of Glasgow three times between 1738 and 1750 and was the father of the young adventurer, George Bogle, private secretary to Warren Hastings, who led the first attempted British embassy from India to Tibet and the Emperor of China in 1774.. }
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- George_Bogle_of_Daldowie abstract "George Bogle, of Daldowie, Junior (1701–1782) was a Virginia merchant, a West India trader, and a considerable citizen of Glasgow, where he was one of the Tobacco Lords. As well as trading in tobacco he dealt in other Caribbean commodities, such as sugar. He was an early partner in the Glasgow Tan Work, and in the Eastern Sugarhouse.He was Rector of the University of Glasgow three times between 1738 and 1750 and was the father of the young adventurer, George Bogle, private secretary to Warren Hastings, who led the first attempted British embassy from India to Tibet and the Emperor of China in 1774.".