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''For other people with the same name, see [[Andrew Grierson]]''.

'''Andrew John Grierson''' (b. 30 August [[1832]], Quendale, Dunrossness, d. 12 April 1896, Quendale House, Lerwick) was a laird and [[Lerwick Town Council]]lor. 

Andrew was the eldest son, and eldest of four children of James Grierson of Quendale and Elizabeth Sinclair Craigie. He died on April 12th [[1896]] at Quendale House, Lerwick. In [[1860]] he married Alice Geraldine Clifford, born June 9th [[1837]] in Sligo, Ireland. Died August 17th [[1917]]. The daughter of Herbert John Clifford, of Sligo, Ireland. Born before [[1815]]. They produced six descendants.

*Lucy Margaret Grierson. Born August 26th [[1861]] at [[Lerwick]]. Died May 26th [[1911]].
*James Cullen Grierson. Born August 7th [[1863]] at [[Lerwick]]. Died July 3rd [[1915]].
*Herbert John Clifford Grierson, Born January 16th [[1866]] at Quendale House, [[Lerwick]]. Died February 22nd [[1960]].
*Elizabeth Mitchell Sinclair Grierson. Born March 21st [[1868]] at [[Lerwick]]. Died June 16th [[1945]] in [[Lerwick]]. On July 3rd [[1897]] she married, in Lerwick, William Arthur Bruce, born September 23rd [[1863]]. A descendant of the Bruce of Symbister and the Bruce of Sumburgh families.
*Andrew Grierson. Born April 11th [[1870]] in [[Lerwick]]. Died July 10th [[1891]] at Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
*Bernard Grant Grierson. Born [[1875]] in Lerwick. 

Upon the death of his father James, the fourth Laird of the Grierson of Quendale family estate, on December 10th [[1863]], Andrew became his successor and the fifth Laird of the Grierson of Quendale family estate.

Upon Andrew's death on April 12th [[1896]] he was succeeded by his eldest son James Cullen Grierson who became the sixth and final laird of the Grierson of Quendale family estate. 

==Biography==
Andrew, like his predecessors and equals held a position of some power and influence over a wide section of Shetland society, and it could be said he was possibly the most active of the Greirson lairds in wielding it. In [[1862]] he is noted as being the Chairman of the opening ceremony of the [[Anderson High School|Anderson Educational Institute]]. Almost immediately after succeeding to the lairdship of the Grierson of Quendale family estate, in [[1864]]/[[1865]] he built the large mansion Quendale House in what was then Craigie Court on South Commercial Street as a family home, replacing the previous Grierson family town house at the [[Commercial Street]] end of Quendale Lane. 

Around ten years later he was to view sheep farming as a more valuable enterprise for the lands on the Grierson of Quendale family estate at Quendale than renting it as crofts to his tenants, and on his orders the six families who were tenants of the township of Garth and a further twenty one families from neighbouring townships were evicted in [[1874]]. The methods used by Andrew to achieve these evictions are considered, by some, as questionable.

In 1858, he started a fishcuring business with [[John Bruce]] which existed for several years before dissolution. He was also a Trustee of the Heritors and Feuars for 32 years. Initially a Liberal, he became a Conservative in his older age.

In [[1878]] he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Zetland.

==Political Career==
*[[Lerwick Town Council Election September 1862]]
==External Links==
*[http://www.bayanne.info/Shetland/getperson.php?personID=I18029&tree=ID1 Bayanne genealogy page]

[[Category:Lerwick Town Councillors]]
[[Category: 1832 Births]]
[[Category: 1896 Deaths]]