28.8.1796 Gilchrist at Holcroft's with Cole / 19.3.1797 again / 26.3.1797 Gilchrist at Holcroft's with Cole & Spiring / 13.5.1798 again / 22.1.1802 E & H Gilchrist dine / 12.1.1819 dine at Booth's with Curtises, Gilchrist & 4 Baxters / 10.12.1826 call on Gilchrist, twice : St James's Park
Will PCC 1818 James Gilchrist of Symonds Inn Chancery Lane, Navy Agent & Purser RN, unusual will left his money to establish first almshouses in Scotland and calling himself the only honest purser in the Navy who lost wealth in attempting to expose corruption, also claimed to have been a loyal supporter of Charles James Fox. His father was buried in Greyfriars churcyard Edinburgh. His executors were William Adam, architect of Mount Novice nr Streatham, Kent (younger brother of Robert & James Adam he committed suicide in 1822) and Alexander Thomson cashier of excise Edinburgh
Probably another James Gilchrist was a merchant at 85 Strand from 1781 to 1791, voting Hood & Wray 1784, and with Charles & Francis Gilchrist at 33 St John Sq also in the 1780s, and the will of James Gilchrist of Kensington was PCC 1823, James Gilchrist, (Baptist minister who became Unitarian but then rejected it) 1783 - 1835 was father of Alexander Gilchrist DNB 1828-1861. John Borthwick Gilchrist DNB 1759-1841 seems to have been in India till 1804, and Octavius Graham Gilchrist DNB 1779-1823 would have been just 17 and supposedly studied at Magdalen College Oxford although Alum Ox doesn't list him, his father Stirling Gilchrist surgeon (will PCC 1792?)
Gilchrist - Executors: William Adam
William Adam, architect of Mount Novice, nr Streatham - This should be Mount Nod.
It is curious that you use 'architect' - the point about William Adam, youngest of the Adam brothers, was that he was NOT an architect, unlike the others who were - though he did call himself that in a late document or so. He was the businessman of the Brothers - also the farmer of Streatham
Do you know anything more of Alexander Thomson, cashier of Excise, Edinburgh?
With thanks
Stephen Massil