Brydon, John McKean (1840-1901)
John McKean Brydon was born in Dunfermline in 1840 and educated at the Commercial Academy there. On 1 September 1856 he was articled to William Hardie Hay and James Murdoch Hay in Liverpool for three years and in 1860 secured a place in the office of David Bryce in Edinburgh as assistant with a home address in Picardy Place.