b. 1789-03-01
d. 1864-11-11
John Ramsay McCulloch, comptroller of
Her Majesty's Stationery Office,
was born at Whithorn, Wigtownshire, on
1 March 1789. McCulloch was a prominent and prolific economist and statistician; as well as lecturing
in Edinburgh and
London he published innumerable articles and books, including his most important work,
A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation (London: A. & R. Spottiswoode, 1832).
In 1838, he became comptroller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office,
which was responsible for supplying the Public Offices at home and abroad with stationery.
McCulloch held this position until his death on 11 November 1864.
Dictionary of National Biography (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1900-) 12, pp. 463-65. Imperial Calendar, 1858, p. 130. BCPO 111.3.