Before Jordanhill became part of Glasgow, the area was once home to a private family and their estate.
That family was the Smiths of Jordanhill and their papers were the very first private collection Glasgow City Archives acquired. We were originally established to collect the archives of Glasgow Corporation and its predecessors but also had an important remit to collect private archives.The Smiths’ estate, family, legal and household papers cover four centuries of their business concerns and private lives.
Exploring was a particular passion for Smith. He honoured his friends, the Arctic explorers General Sabine and Captain Douglas Clavering, by naming his daughter Sabina Douglas Clavering Smith. She herself was a childhood friend of William Thomson, the Belfast-born mathematician and engineer, who is better known as Lord Kelvin. When they were adults, he proposed marriage to her several times.
The collection is also remarkable for its examples of photography, especially early photography. As well as family albums and glass negatives, there are ambrotypes and daguerreotypes dating from the 1850s. In the early twentieth century, Glasgow Corporation purchased the estate for teacher training purposes. The mansion house was demolished in 1961 and, in its place rose a building for Jordanhill College of
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