@samuel_wade I mean, could there be a better Wikipedia bio...
> He was in turn a millwright, engineer, draftsman, accountant, inventor, silversmith, merchant, investment broker, economist, statistician, pamphleteer, translator, publicist, land speculator, convict, banker, ardent royalist, editor, blackmailer and journalist.
His nephew went on to build the college I studied in, where the fabulous Playfair Library is.
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