Renton, a town in Dumbartonshire, on the Leven, 2 m. N. of Dumbarton; engaged in calico-printing, dyeing, &c.; has a monument in memory of Tobias Smollett, who was born in the neighbourhood.
Population (circa 1900) given as 5,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Rente * Renwick, James