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had been with the naval contingent, and with his prize-money hnilt the first tenement in it. This thoroughfare has been swallowed up in extending the College Railway Station.
High Street, opened in 1100. It led to the highest part of the town, but it was of little account until the University was erected in it.
Hillhead. Andrew Gibson had been tenant of these lands conjointly with those of Byres of Partick up till June 1702, when he became proprietor, his forbears having been rentallers of the same for a considerable period prior to his succession. The same family were also proprietors about this time of the estates of Overnewton and Balshagrie, and as showing the state of society in the good old days, we find it on record that John Gibson of Hillhead is outlawed for non-appearance at the Court of Paisley in 1687 to answer a charge of robbing an orchard at Whyteford, and in company with others, committing an outrage upon the proprietor, Mr. Kibble, who was ancestor of the Kibbles of Greenlaw. Another member of the same family was a sort of Greirson of Lagg in regard to the Covenanters who came under his ban while holding the office of Chief Magistrate.
Holm Street formed the southern boundary of the holm or hollow called Blythswood Holm.
Hope Street, when first opened, was called Copenhagen Street.
Hospital Street is formed upon the site of St. Ninian's Leper Hospital, founded by Lady Lochow in 1350.
Houldsworth Street is named after Henry Houldsworth. He came from Nottingham towards the end of the eighteenth century to manage a cotton-spinning factory which stood on the banks of the Kelvin. His success was phenomenal, as by the beginning of last century he was running on his own account a large factory in Cheapside Street and also a machine shop in John Street (City), where he was the first to make cotton-spinning machinery in Scotland. On the decay of the cotton trade he merged into
