David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ His industry as a weaver in working hours enabled him to afford a good education to his children. His son, Peter, suggested that he should become an optical instrument maker, and a shop was opened in the name of John Dollond in Vine Court, Spitalfields. Mr. Dollond in course of time devoted himself entirely to the shop, and was thus enabled to enlist his scientific pleasures in the battle of life. ”

“ Their son, Jean, was the celebrated John Dollond, born 10th June 1706. He also became a silk-weaver, and was conscientiously diligent and earnest in his business. Devoting only his leisure hours to study, he became a proficient in mathematics and physics, and in church history and theology, besides attaining to a creditable acquaintance with anatomy and natural history. ”

“ Jean Dollond, silk-weaver in Well Street, parish of Stepney, village of Mile End, New Town, near London, appears in the Threadneedle Street register in 1700, as a witness to the baptism of Antoine Cavelier, jun. ”