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Parliament during his terms of office. It is said that while in Parliament, Oswald "seldom
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in 1875, after the council were petitioned by his great-nephew, Richard
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Oswald's older brother, Richard Alexander Oswald was also a merchant in Glasgow and together they owned a
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