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D B Stark

Born approx (1805-)1811, only child of son Robert Stark of Kirkhill (died 1812) and Mary Bannatyne (daughter of Dugald Bannatyne, Johnston, Bannatyne & Co, the secretary of the chamber of commerce and postmaster of Glasgow). Younger half brother of Mark Young Stark, minister in Canada.



Entered University of Glasgow 1825



From around 1828 Stark & Fulton millwrights.



1836 lived at 188 West Regent Street.



Shareholder in Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway, Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.



1840, June 10, Dugald Bannatyne Stark appointed locomotive superintendent of the [[Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and AR (of which he was also, along with relatives, a shareholder).

1840, June 20, Stark & Fulton^s works advertised for sale.

1840, August, Stark & Fulton^s works advertised for sale. An argument over payment between S&F and G,P,K&AR has to go to arbitration (by Murdoch & Aitken), with S&F winning.

1840, October 7, Dugald Bannatyne Stark resigns from the G,P,K&AR after difficulties.



Died as an engineer in Trinidad on 27 May 1843, unmarried.



The business of Stark & Fulton may have survived his death - 2 locomotives being built for the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway (opened 1850), apparently in 1849.



Half brother Mark Young Stark preserved some of his sermons and letters.

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