McCulloch One Name Study

He was made bankrupt in February 1806, but obtained his certificate in July 1810. Thereafter he was in an office in London under the Government and lived a very secluded and retired life. This may possibly have enabled him to recover from his bankruptcy. For upwards of five years before his death he lodged with a very respectable tradesman in Westminster who reported of him at the time of his death that he did not owe £5 in the world and of all the particular men he had ever seen or heard of Mr. McCulloch was the most exact in the settlement and payment of his bills. He always lived most comfortably and like a man of good property though very retiredly: yet not without some society which was of the most respectable description. The property in his lodgings, of very considerable value, consisting of money, plate, pictures, books, linen, wine and furniture, was left to his brother, David, in Galloway. In his little speculations in the stocks he had been tolerably successful and there was a balance of money at his credit in the hands of Mr. Bonnar, his stockbroker in the City. Edward McCulloch died unmarried on 26 April 1819 having succeeded to Kirkclaugh on the death of his brother, Robert, four years previously. He does not appear ever to have resided there.