Glenkinchie Distillery

Pencaitland, East Lothian

1825 Brothers John and George Rate established Milton distillery.

1837 The Rates established a larger distillery, which was Glenkinchie.

1853 The distillery was closed and converted to use as a sawmill.

1883 The Glenkinchie Distillery Company Limited was registered on 15th October, with capital of £4,000. An agreement was filed between James Hannan, and James Hair, Glasgow, as sole partners and trustees for behoof of (1) the Glenkinchie Distillery Company and (2) James Hannan and Company, distillers, with consent of (1) the said Glenkinchie Distillery Company and (2) the said James Hannan and Company, of the one part, and William Connal, merchant, Glasgow and Middlesborough-on-Tees, for the company, on the other part. The purchase price was £790 to be paid in fully paid up shares.

At the time of Alfred Barnard's visit, he estimated annual output at around 76,000 gallons of malt whisky.

1890 It was resolved that the original company should be wound up, with James Hannan as liquidator, and that he should register a new company of the same name. In spite of other changes, both the old and new companies were not finally liquidated until 1937.

1914 Glenkinchie joined with four other Lowland distillers to form a new company, Scottish Malt Distillers Limited. The other parties to the merger were The Clydesdale Distillery Company Limited, Wishaw; A. and J. Dawson Limited, Linlithgow; The Rosebank Distillery Limited, Falkirk and William Young and Co Limited, Burntisland.

1925 Scottish Malt Distillers merged with the Distillers Co and thus, in time, the business became part of Diageo's portfolio of whisky distilleries.

1998 Glenkinchie was chosen to be the Lowland representative in Diageo's Classic Malt Selection.

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Sources of Information

• National Records of Scotland BT2/1288, BT2/2025
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