C. & J. Malloch

C. & J. Malloch were glaziers and glass merchants in Glasgow. The firm was established by Charles (1820–1877) and John Murray Malloch (1823–1885) whose father Andrew (1790–1849) had opened a Glasgow ‘Crown Glass Warehouse’ by 1839. The brothers renamed the firm shortly after their father’s death, while advertising ‘the great reduction in price of British Plate Glass’, which had only recently become tax-free and mass-produced. Their nephew, Andrew Malloch Bayne (1849–1910) joined the firm in 1870. 1 Andrew Bayne was acquainted with painter John B. Bennett of J. B. Bennett & Son, and was visiting him at the time of the 1871 census. John Malloch retired from the firm that year to concentrate on his own ‘patent rolled and rough glass manufacturers’ at Firhill in Garscube Road. In 1873 the firm erected new premises in Miller Street and by 1875, Bayne had been made partner. 2 Bayne was active in public life: he participated in the Incorporation of Maltmen at the Trades House, the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, and was a governor of the Western Infirmary, and a president of Anderson’s College Medical School. 3

John's son, Andrew Murray Malloch (1863–1914), joined the family firm, and in 1887 patented methods of rolling ‘rippled, dappled, vermicular’ (opaque) glass. 4 He owned the Glasgow Plate Glass Company, in the aptly-named Murano Street, and the Wester Moffat Colliery in Airdrie. 5 The Glasgow Plate Glass Company, a descendent of his father’s Firhill venture, was voluntarily wound up in 1911. 6 In 1911, C. & J. Malloch’s sole remaining partner, James Bayne, went bankrupt and Malloch's consequently closed. 7