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John Bell Sheriff
John Bell Sherriff was a prominent Victorian distiller and landowner. His father George Sheriff, had been a renowned Engineer having served his apprenticeship under James Watt in Birmingham and working predominantly as the manager of the Imperial Engineering Works in St. Petersburg. In 1784 whilst working in Falkirk, he married Margaret Bell, and together they had 7 Children.

John was the second youngest of the seven, but his younger brother Alexander died in infancy in Russia.

By 1855 Sherriff was a director of William Guild and Company who owned Port Charlotte distillery on Islay. At that time the company posted a notice in both the London and Edinburgh Gazette's identifying that the company way being dissolved and that Sherriff would be continuing to run the distillery alone.

In 1857 Sherriff purchased the estate of Carronvale in Larbert, he also purchased the nearby manor of Stenhouse between 1879 and 1883. This was followed by Glensanda on theMorvern peninsula in 1888 (or 1881)

In 1896 Sherriff died, and the estates passed to his son George.