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"Lord Provost" Definitions
  1. the Scottish equivalent of a Lord Mayor
"Lord Provost" Synonyms
mayor boroughmaster burgomaster mayoress praetor provost seneschal steward lady mayor Lord Mayor

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"They're a very good fit for us because we have, like many other cities… air quality issues," Barney Crockett, the Lord Provost of Aberdeen, told CNBC's Sustainable Energy.
"They're a very good fit for us because we have, like many other cities … air quality issues," Barney Crockett, the Lord Provost of Aberdeen, told CNBC's "Sustainable Energy".
Created in 1947, partly in response to the end of World War II, the festival was intended to "provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit," in the words of Sir John Falconer, then the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and the festival's chairman.
Dictionary of Scottish Architects: Leiper. In 1880 he succeeded Sir William Collins as Lord Provost of Glasgow. During his term in office he organised the building of the new Counil buildings on George Square. On stepping down as Lord Provost he declined a knighthood from Queen Victoria, the standard "reward" for a Lord Provost, the only Lord Provost to do this in her reign.
Lord Provost George Drummond George Drummond (1688–1766) was accountant- general of excise in Scotland and a local politician, elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh a number of times between 1725 and 1764.
Dr Jack Kane LLD (1 April 1911-10 October 1999) was a Scottish politician and social campaigner who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1972 to 1975. He was Edinburgh's first Labour Lord Provost.
Cameron is married to Liz Cameron, former Lord Provost of Glasgow.
While this was confirmed in the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and subsequently in the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 the title Lord Provost of Aberdeen was formally established in 1863 when Queen Victoria knighted Sir Alexander Anderson designing him 'Lord Provost of Aberdeen'. Until then, while various petitions, and other documents variously addressed the holder as Lord Provost, the title was correctly Provost of Aberdeen. Since 1899, the Lord Provost of Aberdeen, has also been ex officio the Lord- Lieutenant of the city.
In 1877 he was elected Lord Provost of Glasgow in place of Sir James Bain. In recognition of his public service as Lord Provost, in 1880 he was knighted by Queen Victoria. He was succeeded in turn as Lord Provost by John Ure. At this time Collins was living at 3 Park Terrace East, a large townhouse overlooking Kelvingrove Park.
He was replaced as Lord Provost in 1905 by Sir William Bilsland.
Lord Provost Falconer (back to camera, in robes) with dignitaries at St Giles's Cathedral, September 1945 Sir John Ireland Falconer, WS (30 November 1879 – 6 April 1954) was the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Scotland from 1944 to 1947.
He was knighted by King George V during his period as Lord Provost.
While some of Scotland's local authorities elect a Provost, only the four main cities (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee) have a Lord Provost. In Edinburgh this position dates from 1667, when Charles II elevated the Provost to the status of Lord Provost, with the same rank and precedence as the Lord Mayor of London. The title of Lord Provost is enshrined in the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.
While some of Scotland's local authorities elect a Provost, only the four main cities (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee) have a Lord Provost. In Edinburgh this position dates from 1667, when Charles II elevated the Provost to the status of Lord Provost, with the same rank and precedence as the Lord Mayor of London. The title of Lord Provost is enshrined in the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.
His grandfather Sir John Fleming was an Aberdeen M.P. and Lord Provost of the city.
The Hutchison area of Edinburgh was named after Hutchison during his term as Lord Provost.
In spite of this the council retained the title of lord provost for their chief magistrate.
Sleigh Drive in the Craigentinny district was named during his period in office as Lord Provost.
In 1969 he received an OBE for his services to the local community. In May 1972 he was elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh, succeeding Sir James Wilson McKay. In 1974 owing to his policitical beliefs he declined a knighthood in the New Year's Honours List, the first Lord Provost to so decline. As a result of him declining the knighthood, the Crown no longer offers an automatic knighthood to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh as it previously did.
The current Lord Provost is Frank Ross. In total, there have been 256 Provosts and Lord Provosts.
Brechin was painted wearing the ceremonial robes of the Lord Provost by Henry Raeburn Dobson in 1967.
In total, there have been 256 Provosts and Lord Provosts. The current Lord Provost is Frank Ross.
Robert Rickaby Winter is a Scottish former politician who was Lord Provost of Glasgow from 2007 until 2012.
Adam Brown of Blackford (c.1660–1711) was a Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
He is possibly grandfather or great grandfather of the later Lord Provost Walter Brown who was a wine merchant.
A Lord Provost (Scottish Gaelic: Àrd-Phrobhaist) is convenor of the local authority, the civic head and the lord-lieutenant of one of the principal cities of Scotland. The role is similar to that of a mayor. Only the cities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow have a lord provost; other Scottish local authorities have provosts or convenors. Perth (as a city) previously termed its civil leader a "lord provost", but from the Second World War onwards has preferred the simple term Provost of Perth.
Sir John Marjoribanks, 1st Baronet (13 January 17635 February 1833) was a Scottish MP and twice Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
Whilst Lord Provost he was painted by William Oliphant Hutchison. The painting is held by the City of Edinburgh Council.
Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford, McWilliam and Walker He was succeeded as Lord Provost by Duncan Weatherstone in 1963.
Aberdeen City Council comprises forty-three councillors, who represent the city's thirteen wards, and is chaired by the Lord Provost.
Following his re-election in 2007, Winter was nominated as Lord Provost by fellow Councillors on Glasgow's ruling Labour group.
Lesley Hinds is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Scotland from 2003 to 2007.
His great-uncle was Archibald Stewart, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Coutts was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh.
Philpot, Glyn Warren; Sir Thomas Hutchison, Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1921–1923) Carlowrie Castle, built by the Hutchison family in the mid 19th century. The Hardiston Hutchison baronets grave, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh Sir Thomas Hutchison (1866 – 1925) was a Scottish landowner and politician. He served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1921 to 1923.
The civic head and chair of the council is known as the Lord Provost. In 2017, Scotland's longest serving councillor, Ian Borthwick MBE became the Lord Provost of Dundee. A number of councillors are appointed as ceremonial bailies. The Leader of the Council, as head of the largest political grouping, is Councillor John Alexander (SNP).
In 1887 he married Eda Lawrie, daughter of Rev J Lawrie and granddaughter of Adam Black, late Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
Whilst in office as Lord Provost he was portrayed by the then young George Reid RSA, one of his earlier commissions.
John Ure DL LLD (1824-1901) was a Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1880 to 1883.
Whilst in office as Lord Provost he was portrayed by the then young George Reid RSA, one of his earliest commissions.
Sir Duncan Mackay Weatherstone (1898-1972) was a Scottish politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1962 to 1966.
Alexander Kincaid (1710–1777) was an 18th-century Scottish printer and publisher who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1776/7.
Andrew Galbraith (1799-1885) was a 19th-century Scottish businessman who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1857 to 1860.
Sir Herbert Archbold Brechin (1903 – 1979) was a British politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1966 to 1969.
He joined Edinburgh Town Council around 1800 and served as Dean of Guild from 1806 and as Lord Provost from 1808. He was Colonel of the Edinburgh Volunteers (a militia). On 8 June 1809, in his capacity as Lord Provost, he laid the foundation stone of the new Edinburgh Asylum in Morningside.Grant's Old and New Edinburgh vol.
Dame Jean Barr MacDonald Roberts (née Weir; 1895–1988), DBE was a 20th-century Scottish politician who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1960 to 1962, the first ever female Lord Provost. She was awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. She was a member of the Independent Labour Party.
Peter Clouston (1807-1888) was a Scottish insurance broker and philanthropist who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1860 to 1863.
Sir William McOnie DL LLD (1813-1894) was a Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1883 to 1886.
Alexander Kincaid Mackenzie (1768-1830) was a 19th-century Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1817 to 1819.
John Dunlop (November 1755 - 4 September 1820) was a Scottish songwriter who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1794 to 1796.
The Hon. William Rae Arthur was a 19th-century Scottish businessman who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1869 to 1871.
King George V conferred a knighthood on Dollan in the New Year's Honours of 1941 for his work as Lord Provost of Glasgow.
William Colter or Coulter (1754-1810) was a 19th-century Scottish hosier who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1808 to 1810.
John Grieve, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, cartoon by John Kay 1783 Right Hon John Grieve FRSE FSA (d.1803) was a Scottish merchant and politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1782 to 1784. He was highly influential in the “Mound Project” linking Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns. He was also a co- founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783.
Sir Andrew Orr Sir Andrew Orr (1801–1872) was a Scottish wholesale stationer who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1854 to 1857.
John Wightman of Mauldslie (c.1670-1740) was an 18th-century Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1721 to 1723.
Sir Thomas Clark FRSE DL (1823–1900) was a Scottish publisher and politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1885 to 1888.
John Manderston or Manderson (c.1760–1831) was a 19th-century Scottish pharmacist who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1819 to 1821.
Sir David Mason (11 May 1862 – 1 April 1940) was a Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1926 to 1929.
Sir Hugh Cunningham of Bonnington (1642-1710) was a 17th century Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1702 to 1704.
Robert Blackwood of Pitreavie (1624-1720) was a 17th century Scottish silk merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1711 to 1713.
Mungo Nutter Cambell Mungo Nutter Campbell of Ballimore (1785–1862) was a 19th-century Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow 1824/26.
John Thomas Alston of Moore Park (1780–1857) was a 19th-century Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1820 to 1822.
He returned to England in 1813. In 1817, he became a shareholder in the Bank of Montreal. His brother George was Lord Provost of Aberdeen.
Sir Archibald Muir or Mure of Thornton (c.1640-1701) was a Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1696 to 1698.
He served in the post until his death two years later, becoming the first Lord Provost to die in office in over one hundred years.
William Smith of Carbeth Guthrie (1787-1871) was a 19th-century Scottish sugar trader who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1822 to 1824.
Samuel Chisholm ca. 1901 Sir Samuel Chisholm, 1st Baronet (23 September 1836 – 27 September 1923), was a Scottish Liberal politician and Lord Provost of Glasgow. Chisholm stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for Glasgow Camlachie in the 1895 general election. He was elected to the Corporation of the City of Glasgow from Woodside Ward, and was Lord Provost of Glasgow between 1899 and 1902.
The main production building was at Lyons Range next to the Calcutta Stock Exchange. Muir was elected Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1889 and created a baronet by Queen Victoria in October 1892, his final year in office.London Gazette 25 October 1892. He was succeeded as Lord Provost by Sir James Bell. He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 4th Volunteer Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) in 1891.
Sadie Docherty (née Boyle; born 6 June 1956) is a Scottish politician who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 2012 to 2017. She belongs to the Labour Party and sits as a councillor for Ward 1, Linn. She worked as a manager for the Glasgow Housing Association prior to becoming Lord Provost. Docherty was born in the Gorbals area of Glasgow to Patrick and Margaret Boyle.
He was elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1960 in succession to Ian Anderson Johnson- Gilbert.Lord Provosts of Edinburgh: Edinburgh City Chambers He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the 1962 New Year Honours List.New Years Honours list 1962 He was host to both the Queen and King Olav V of Norway during his time as Lord Provost. His time as Lord Provost was dominated by major planning decisions (typical of all cities at that time), including the decision to clear St James Square to create the St. James Centre and promotion of the Princes Street Plan which resulted in the loss of many important historic buildings.
Sir Victor Dunn Warren DL JP (1903-1953) was a 20th century Scottish explosives manufacturer who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1949 to 1952.
Sir William Johnston of Kirkhill (1802–1888) was a Scottish engraver, mapmaker and local politician, who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1848 to 1851.
Laurence or Lawrence Craigie (c.1750–c.1833) was an 18th/19th century Scottish merchant and local politician who twice served as Lord Provost of Glasgow.
Sir James Stuart of Binend (1716-1777) was an 18th-century Scottish merchant who was twice Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1764 to 1766 and 1768 to 1770.
Edinburgh City Chambers, headquarters of the council The current Lord Provost of Edinburgh is Frank Ross, who replaced Donald Wilson in 2017. In Scotland, the Lord Provost fulfils many similar roles to that of a Mayor in some other countries. Elections to the Council are held every four/five years electing 63 councillors. The most recent elections took place in May 2017 and the next election will be in May 2022.
In 1782 he succeeded David Steuart as Lord Provost, the highest position available in local politics in Scotland. Whilst some records show this as ending in 1784, he curiously writes an open letter in 1788 to all magistrates of Scottish Towns signing it as "Lord Provost of Edinburgh".Parliamentary Reform on Constitutional Principles, John Borthwick Gilchrist He served as President of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh 1767-77.
On 10 November 1927, in one of the corridors of Caird Hall, Thomson collapsed and died. A woman who had been waiting to see the Lord Provost saw him fall in the main corridor. She informed Lord Provost High and S. G. Fraser, with whom he was engaged at the moment, and they ran to his assistance. Thomson made a vain effort to speak but died in the arms of Fraser.
Sir John Greig Dunbar CBE DL JP (1907-?) was a 20th century Scottish businessman and Tory politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1960 to 1963.
James Buchanan of Drumpellier (1726-1786) was an 18th-century tobacco merchant who twice served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1768 to 1770 and 1774 to 1776.
William Mills of Sandyford (1776-1857) was a 19th-century Scottish merchant and shipping owner who served as a Whig Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1834 to 1837.
In 2017 Borthwick became Lord Provost of Dundee at the age of 78, following an agreement which saw the SNP group on the council form a minority administration.
Steve Cardownie is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician and former Deputy Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh Council where he was a councillor for the Forth ward.
Cameo of Thomas Elder, 1795 Thomas Elder of Forneth (1737–29 May 1799), was a Scottish wine merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1788 to 1790.
He was knighted by King George V during his period as Lord Provost. His full-length portrait by George Fiddes Watt is held by the City of Edinburgh Council.
His great uncle was Robert Craigie, Lord Glendoick. His brothers were John Craigie and Lawrence Craigie, twice Lord Provost of Glasgow. His nephews included Rear Admiral Robert Craigie RN.
Sir John Hall of Dunglass (1650-1695) was a 17th-century Scottish merchant who twice served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh: from 1689 to 1691 and 1692 to 1694.
In 1944 Falconer was again put forward as the Progressive Party's candidate for Lord Provost, this time winning the position. On 10 November 1944 Falconer was sworn in as Lord Provost of Edinburgh. In 1937 Falconer joined the University Court of the University of Edinburgh. Between 1945 and 1947, Falconer played a major role in establishing the Edinburgh International Festival, putting in train the necessary administrative machinery that ensured that the Festival could take place.
On 18 May, the SNP formally took control of the council as a minority administration with SNP members filling the positions of council leader, depute council leader, and Lord Provost.
The statue of Greyfriars Bobby erected by Provost Law William Law (1799-1878) was a 19th-century Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1869 to 1872.
David Aikinhead or Aikenhead or Aikinhid (1566-1637) was a 17th-century Scottish lawyer who twice served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, from 1620 to 1622 and 1625 to 1630.
Sir James Bain of Crofthead (1817–1898) was a Scottish iron-founder who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1874 to 1877. Bain Street in Glasgow is named after him.
His lordships of Montsoreau and Argenton, but also his governorship of La Rochelle and Lord Provost and Captain of Niort, Talmont-sur-Gironde and Aigues-Mortes assured him some substantial revenues.
Sir John Lorne MacLeod (20 October 1873 - 7 September 1946) was a Scottish solicitor and public servant who served as Lord Provost and Lord-Lieutenant of Edinburgh from 1916 to 1919.
Sir John Smith of Grothill and Kings Cramond (c. 1600 – c. 1675) was a 17th- century Scottish landowner and merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1643 to 1646.
Marischal College, home of Aberdeen City Council, Broad St. Aberdeen is locally governed by Aberdeen City Council, which comprises forty-five councillors who represent the city's wards and is headed by the Lord Provost. The current Lord Provost is Barney Crockett. From May 2003 until May 2007 the council was run by a Liberal Democrat and Conservative Party coalition. Following the May 2007 local elections, the Liberal Democrats formed a new coalition with the Scottish National Party.
His uncle, also named William Longair, was Lord Provost of the Burgh of Dundee from 1905 to 1908. On 3 April 2009, Longair was inducted into Dundee's Hall of Fame (Heritage Award).
Millar was born on 26 June 1869 in Edinburgh. Her parents were Mary Gray Morison and Sir Robert Kirk Inches, who was a master goldsmith, and Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1912-16.
Gilbert Laurie of Polmont (1729-1809) was an 18th-century Scottish merchant and senior excise officer who twice served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh: from 1766 to 1768 and 1772 to 1774.
Abertay was born in Glasgow, the eldest son of Sir Charles Barrie, Lord Provost of Dundee, and Jane Ann Cathro. He was educated at the High School of Dundee and Blairlodge School, Polmont.
Sir Matthew Walker Montgomery LLD DL (18 April 1859Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 - 8 August 1933) was a Scottish businessman who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1923 to 1926.
Sir Robert Kirk Inches (c. 1845 – 2 August 1918) was a Scottish goldsmith and silversmith. He co-founded the jewellers Hamilton & Inches and served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1912 to 1916.
Back Cow Lone was re-named to Ingram Street in 1781. The street was re-named in honour of Archibald Ingram, a Tobacco Lord, who became Lord Provost of Glasgow in the 1760s.
Sir James Lumsden James Lumsden DL (1808-1879) was a Scottish stationer and merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1866 to 1869. He was known as the Knight of Arden.
He was married twice. In 1813 he married Hannah Black daughter of James Black, Lord Provost of Glasgow. In 1844 he married Anne Dirom, daughter of Lt Gen Alexander Dirom of Mount Annan.
Sir John Garnett Banks CBE LLD JP (9 May 1889-2 May 1974) was a 20th-century Scottish businessman and local politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1954 to 1957.
In 1949, an international convention in Glasgow reported over 1000 attendees from around 4000 lodges, and was to celebrate 130 years of the Order. Sir Andrew Murray, the Lord Provost, addressed the conference.
Stewart was elected as one of the first Labour Party members of the Glasgow Corporation, representing Hutchesontown ward from 1901. From 1935 until 1938, he was the first Labour Party Lord Provost of Glasgow.
Sir John Melville FRSE WS (1803 – 5 May 1860) was a Scottish lawyer and landowner who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1854 to 1859. Melville Drive in Edinburgh is named after him.
However the whole street - Cotton Street and the extended Cross Street - was instead named together as one street - Cochrane Street - in honour of Andrew Cochrane, the Tobacco Lord and former Lord Provost of Glasgow.
Lady Steel is listed as still living at 32 Colinton Rd in 1910.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910 He is thought to be grandfather to Sir William Steel Lord Provost from 1938 to 1941.
The local Liberal Association selected 60-year-old James Gibson to defend the seat. He had been Lord Provost, of Edinburgh since 1906. The Conservatives selected 29-year-old Patrick Ford as their candidate.
Sir George Reid George Thompson (1804–1895) was a Scottish Liberal politician who was The Lord Provost of Aberdeen and MP for city. He was also the founder of the Aberdeen Line shipping company.
Ironically, following a later refurbishment the building now commemorates the Lord Provost Maurice McManus. Initially retitled McManus Galleries, after refurbishment in 2010, it is now formally known as The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum.
Alex Mosson is a Scottish Labour Party politician and a former Lord Provost of Glasgow. He has also represented Anderston as a councillor and served as an official of the Transport and General Workers' Union.
Alexander Henderson of Press (c.1770-1826) was an 18th/19th century Scottish nurseryman and seed merchant, who was first Chairman of the National Bank of Scotland and Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1823 to 1825.
High Constables were selected and appointed by the baillies and later the Lord Provost. Sometimes, like in 1657, High Constables had to arrest people for breach of the Sabbath - in that case, the Leith bailiies 'bickering'.
They came to Edinburgh to live. From 1882 to 1887 he was chairman of the North British Railway Company. Falshaw was Lord Provost of Edinburgh between 1874 and 1877. His Town Clerk was William Skinner of Corra.
Sir John Smith Samuel KBE FRSE DL (1870-1934) was an early 20th century Scottish master of ceremonies, acting as Ceremonial Secretary to the City of Glasgow and as Private Secretary to the Lord Provost of Glasgow.
Memorial Fountain to Lord Provost James Stewart (1811-1866) by James Sellars, Kelvingrove Park James Sellars (2 December 1843 - 9 October 1888) was a Scottish architect who was heavily influenced by the work of Alexander Greek Thomson.
Sir John Muir, 1st Baronet DL JP (1828-1903) was a Scottish businessman who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1889 to 1892. He founded Finlay Muir & Co, one of the world's largest 19th century companies.
The East Lothian flag is the flag of the Scottish county of East Lothian (Haddingtonshire). It was registered with the Flag Institute on 13 December 2018 following its announcement at a reception hosted by the Lord Provost.
Andrew Buchanan of Drumpellier (1690-1759) was a Scottish tobacco merchant who was one of Glasgow's "Tobacco Lords". He served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1740 to 1742. Buchanan Street in Glasgow is named after him.
After her term as Lord Provost, she sat as a councillor for a further 10 years, before retiring from the council at the 2017 elections. She is married to Duncan Cameron, a president of the Camanachd Association.
In 1982, Struthers Advertising had undertaken an anti-smoking campaign for the Scottish Health Education Group featuring members of the Scotland national football team under the theme "The squad don't smoke". Later that year, the then Lord Provost of Glasgow Michael Kelly announced plans to make Glasgow a no smoking city by the year 2000. John Struthers wrote to Michael Kelly offering assistance with the No Smoking aim. The Lord Provost said he was simply the figurehead for the No Smoking group but he and John Struthers met over coffee.
The Lord Provost of Dundee is the chair and civic head of the City of Dundee local authority in Scotland. They are elected by the city council and serve not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead and Lord Lieutenant for the city. They are equivalent in many ways to the institution of Mayor that exists in other countries. Each of the 32 Scottish local authorities elects a Provost, but it is only the four largest cities, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee that have a Lord Provost.
Edinburgh Post Office directory 1775 He held the role of Lord Provost for only four months, being elected in September 1776 and dying in office on 21 January 1777. He was buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard on 23 January.
Wiszniewski won the Haldane Trust Award (1982), the David Cargill Scholarship (1983), the Mark Rothko Memorial Award (1984), the I.C.C.F. Best Design Award New York (1993) and the Lord Provost Gold Medal of the City of Glasgow (1999).
In Scotland, he was welcomed by William Johnston (Lord Provost). There he visited various forts and industries. On 21 August 1850, Jung Bahadur and the team departed towards France. There he met with the then President of France.
Bailie Lothian with Provost David Steuart by John Kay Dalguise House David Steuart or Stewart (1747-1824) was an 18th/19th century Scottish merchant, banker and bibliophile who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1780 to 1782.
In 1883 he was elected Lord Provost of Glasgow. He was knighted by Queen Victoria at Blythswood in 1888. He gifted a set of stained glass windows to Pollokshields Church. He died at Heath Bank on 3 February 1894.
He was the father of Valentine Fleming and Philip Fleming. He was the grandfather of novelist Ian Fleming and writer Peter Fleming. Sir John Fleming, onetime Lord Provost of Aberdeen and later a local MP, was a younger brother.
Sir James Wilson McKay (12 March 1912 – 25 May 1992) was a Scottish businessman who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh between 1969–72. A Freemason, he was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland from 1979–83.
The Dunlop Baronetcy, of Woodbourne in the County of Renfrew, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 6 July 1916, for the Scottish businessman Thomas Dunlop. He was Lord Provost of Glasgow between 1914 and 1917.
Sir Alexander Anderson of Blelack (1802-1887) was a 19th-century Scottish advocate and politician who served as Lord Provost of Aberdeen from 1859 to 1866 and is viewed as one of the major forces in moulding the city.
Garnet Wilson (1885-1975) was a Scottish businessman and Liberal politician who served as Lord Provost of Dundee. He has been described as 'one of the most prominent figures in public life in Dundee in the mid twentieth century'.
Sir James Dick of Prestonfield (1644-1728) was a 17th/18th century Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1679 to 1681. He was the first Baronet of Prestonfield and was progenitor to the Dick baronets.
James Macdowall and William Macdowall were the sixteenth and seventeenth Lairds respectively. During the seventeenth century, they were members of Parliament for Wigtownshire. William and his wife, Grizel Beaton, had fourteen children. Their grandson, James Macdowall, became Lord Provost of Glasgow.
In the same capacity he oversaw the hanging of James Wilson on 30 August 1820 on the alleged charge of treason. He was succeeded as Lord Provost by John Thomas Alston. He lived at Westbank House on Renfrew Road in Glasgow.
Sir Samuel McClellan, MacClellan or McLellan (c.1640-1709) was a Scottish cloth merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1709. He served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1706 to 1708.
The Hunter-Blair baronetcy of Dunskey in the County of Wigtown is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created for the Member of Parliament, and Lord Provost of Edinburgh, James Hunter-Blair on 27 June 1786.
Glasgow Herald 10 May 1995 He became a town councillor in 1863 and was elected Lord Provost in 1874 and knighted by Queen Victoria in 1877 when he was replaced as Lord Provost by William Collins the famous Scottish publisher.. He was Deputy Chairman of the Clyde Navigation Trust and together with Sir James Lumsden organised the building of the Prince's Dock on the River Clyde. He was MP for Whitehaven 1891/2 and founded the Whitehaven Ironworks there. Bain died on 25 April 1898. He is buried with his family in the churchyard of Glasgow Cathedral.
During that meeting, the Lord Provost said how much he wanted a campaign for Glasgow similar to the highly successful I Love New York campaign but the City had no money to fund such an initiative. As a result of that meeting, John Struthers undertook not only to create but also initially fund the development of a campaign capable of meeting the Lord Provost's objectives. Various concepts were developed and rejected but in March 1983 Struthers presented the Glasgow's Miles Better proposal to Kelly supported with a fund raising strategy. The Lord Provost loved the whole concept and personally took it on board.
Mosson was associated with many notable events during his time as Lord Provost. These included: the UEFA Champions League Final between Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen at Hampden Park in 2002, the twinning of the city with Havana and the promotion of the £500,000,000 Glasgow Harbour Development.Alex Mosson (Glasgow Caledonian University, Research Collections, Archives, 2002), The Glasgow Story As Lord Lieutenant of the City of Glasgow, the Lord Provost accompanied the Queen at the opening of the Glasgow Science Centre and the Lighthouse. He represented the city at the funerals of The Queen Mother and Cardinal Thomas Winning.
Both cities have claimed to be the home of character Groundskeeper Willie, based on various bits of dialogue from the series. He also conducted tongue-in-cheek interviews with former Lord Provost of Glasgow Liz Cameron and former Aberdeen FC manager Mark McGhee.
Henry Dunlop of Craigton The grave of Alexina, widow of Henry Dunlop of Craigton, Dean Cemetery Henry Dunlop of Craigton FRSE DL (1799-1867) was a Scottish cotton manufacturer and merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1837 to 1840.
William Allan of Edinburgh c.1820 Detail of John Ainslie's map of Edinburgh, 1804, showing Alexander Allan's Hillside House William Allan of Glen JP (1788-1868) was a 19th-century Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1829 to 1831.
At the trial of the Edinburgh Lord Provost Archibald Stewart for high treason in 1747, George Lauder was one of the witnesses for the defence. He was thrown from his horse on 30 April 1752 and died on 8 May 1752 at Edinburgh.
From 1951 to 1954 he was Lord Provost of Edinburgh. He was succeeded by John Garnett Banks. In 1953 the University of Edinburgh awarded him an honorary doctorate (LLD). In 1955 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Sir Thomas Blaikie Wooden figure of Thomas Blaikie, Aberdeen Maritime Museum Sir Thomas Blaikie of Kingseat (11 February 1802 – 25 September 1861) was a Scottish businessman who twice served as Lord Provost of Aberdeen, from 1839 to 1847 and 1853 to 1856.
Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baronet FRSE FSA(Scot) (5 December 1846 – 15 November 1918) was a Scottish merchant and businessman who served as the Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1897 to 1900. He was also a Director of the Bank of Scotland.
As a result, the main focus of the election was on the Lord Provost and the personalities of the individual candidates. The Liberal Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baronet took over as Provost following the election, replacing the Unionist Sir Andrew McDonald.
Provost Ross's House, with the clock tower of Aberdeen Sheriff Court on the right Provost John Ross was Lord Provost in Aberdeen, Scotland from 1710–1712. Today he is most famous for the house he occupied in the 18th century from 1702.
Following a meeting with the Lord Provost of Dundee, the Rector is 'dragged' in the University's carriage from Dundee City Chambers to the University by one of the sports teams in a parade, often stopping off at public houses along the way for refreshments.
David Brown married Catherine Dyce, daughter of Dr William Dyce, on 25 February 1836 at Saint Nicholas's Church, Aberdeen, Scotland. Their eldest daughter, Margaret Dyce Brown, married Sir David Stewart, Lord Provost of Aberdeen from 1889 to 1894. His younger brother was Charles John Brown.
John William Chesser SSC (6 September 1862 - 29 June 1921) was a 19th/20th century Scottish solicitor and Tory politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1919 to 1921. The suburb of south-west Edinburgh known as Chesser was named after him.
He was appointed deputy editor in 1984. In 1997 he was appointed editor, a position he held through 2000. From 1999 to 2001 he chaired the Scottish Editors' Committee. In 2001 he received the Lord Provost of Glasgow's Medal "for giving Glasgow a Voice".
A measure of his rise to prominence were his public offices. As early as 1813 he was elected Lord Provost of Glasgow; he also became a Governor of the Forth and Clyde Navigation, President of the Chamber of Commerce and a Member of Parliament.
A message of support from the Provosts of 28 towns and cities across Scotland was read out, having been relayed from John o' Groats by runners from the Scottish Youth Clubs Association. The games were closed by James MacKay, Lord Provost of the Edinburgh Corporation.
Sir James Spittal (1769–1842) was a Scottish silk merchant who was Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1833 to 1837. Spittal Street in the west of Edinburgh is named after him. He was a strong Whig politician who campaigned for election reforms to increase democracy.
Buchanan Street looking southward towards Argyle Street and the Clyde. The green glass entrance to Buchanan Street subway station is visible midway. Buchanan Street was first feued in 1777 and named after a wealthy Tobacco Lord, plantation owner and former Lord Provost of Glasgow, Andrew Buchanan of Buchanan, Hastie, & Co. He was proprietor of the ground on which it was formed from Argyle Street as far north as Gordon Street. Andrew had died in 1759 and his tobacco empire was inherited by his son James Buchanan of Drumpellier (also twice Lord Provost of Glasgow). The family made huge losses following the American Revolution of 1776, losing all their plantations in Virginia.
Liz Cameron is a former Lord Provost of Glasgow. Born in Partick, Glasgow, she graduated from the University of Glasgow and became a college lecturer, teaching at Bell College of Technology in Hamilton. First elected as a Labour member of the Glasgow District Council in 1992, she was elected to the new City of Glasgow Unitary Authority to represent the Knightswood South ward in 1995. After having served as Convener of the Council's Art and Culture Committee from 1998–2003, she was unanimously elected by the city council to replace Alex Mosson as Lord Provost in May 2003, a post which she held for four years.
1829), wife Ann Stennett (1827-1900) and numerous children (most of whom died young) lie with him. His son John William Chesser (1862-1921) grew to adulthood and became Lord Provost of Edinburgh, 1919-1921. He is buried with a separate monument, immediately to the north.
David Kinnear Thomson (26 March 1910 – 27 December 1992) was the chairman and president of Peter Thomson (Perth) Limited, whisky blenders and exporters based in Perth, Scotland. He served as Lord Provost of Perth from 1966 to 1972 and chairman of Tayside Health Board from 1973-1977.
John Blackie LLD DL (1805-1873) was a 19th-century Scottish publisher and the "son" of Blackie & Son who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1863 to 1866. The company specialised in printing annotated bibles and religious works including Scotland's first religious newspaper, the Scottish Guardian.
They returned to Colinton after their marriage. Their daughter Mabel Christian Forbes married Sir Thomas Barnby Whitson who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1929 to 1932. Mabel died in 1971. Forbes returned to Scotland and died suddenly on 2 July 1881 in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.
James Miller in the Netherlands (1971) Sir James Miller (16 March 190520 March 1977) was a Scottish businessman and politician, who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Lord Mayor of London. As an architect, engineer and house- builder he founded the firm Miller Homes in 1934.
Archibald Stewart of Mitcham MP (1697-1780) was an 18th-century Scottish merchant and politician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh during the critical Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London for over a year owing to his alleged negligence.
The grave of Thomas Jamieson Boyd, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh Sir Thomas Jamieson Boyd, (22 February 1818-22 August 1902) publisher and philanthropist, was Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1877 to 1882. He was the catalyst behind the building of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Lauriston Place.
William Trotter of Ballindean JP DL (1772-1833) was a Scottish cabinet-maker who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1825 to 1827. A highly respected maker of Regency furniture he has been called Scotland's greatest cabinet- maker. He has a distinctive and recognisable style.
He resigned in March 1626. Reappointed as Rector in 1646, he was deposed for his refusal to preach against the Engagers, the Covenanters who had agreed a secret treaty with Charles I. Ramsay was the father of Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, judge and Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
Miss Edith Thompson, C.B.E., Chairman of Executive, Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women. A Scottish Advisory Council for CORB was also appointed, which met at 27, St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh 2. The Right Honourable the Lord Provost of Glasgow, P. J. Dollan, Esq., (Chairman).
In 1863 he married Mary Jemima Tait daughter of Reverend Adam Duncan Tait. They had eight children. These included Sir Thomas Hutchison (1866-1925), who became Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet (1871-1960). His niece was the female explorer and adventurer, Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
Sir William Bilsland Sir William Bilsland LLD (17 March 1847 - 27 August 1921) was a Scottish baker who owned one of Scotland's largest bakeries, and was Lord Provost of Glasgow. He was an elder of the United Free Church of Scotland and a supporter of the temperance movement.
The architect of the Hall was James Matthews, who also designed the arched balustrade running the length of Union Terrace Gardens and from 1883 to 1886 was Lord Provost of Aberdeen. Room hire is available for very reasonable rates, full details on the Venue Hire page of the website.
The grave of Sir James Russell, Dean Cemetery Sir James Alexander Russell (6 April 1846 in Glassellan House, Skye - 22 January 1918 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish physician who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1891–94). He was a pioneer in the development of public health services.
Sir James Gibson 33 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh Sir James Gibson's grave, Dean Cemetery Sir James Puckering Gibson, 1st Baronet (14 August 1849 – 11 January 1912), was a Scottish Liberal Party politician. He was Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1906-9 and Liberal MP for Edinburgh East from 1909 to 1912.
After Donaldson left Kincaid, his involvement with the Scottish Enlightenment's new books was essentially over, with the exception of his involvement with James Boswell.Sher, p. 314 Kincaid went on to become Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Donaldson joined the printing firm of Sands Donaldson Murray & Cochran in 1755–1759.
Robert Steuart was the seventh and youngest son of Sir James Steuart of Kirkfield and Coltness (1608–1681), Lord Provost of Edinburgh, by his first wife Anne Hope. He was a younger brother of Sir James Steuart of Goodtrees (1635–1713), the Lord Advocate from 1692 to 1709.
Bobby's fate rests with the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and, without a license and someone to take responsibility for Bobby, he may be destroyed. The children of Edinburgh contribute their pennies for Bobby's license. Bobby is declared a Freeman of the City and adopted by the populace of Edinburgh.
The Liberals, with 5 seats, held the balance of power in the new council. Following the election Edinburgh corporation would elect its first Labour Lord Provost; Jack Kane.p.6 The election also witnessed the continuation of the decline of the Progressives, who lost 5 seats. Turnout was 42.1%.
106–107 After her commissioning, Augsburg was used as a torpedo test ship. In 1912, she was transferred to gunnery training. On 20 May 1914 she visited Dundee on a courtesy visit. Captain Fischer and his crew were welcomed by the Lord Provost and "the greatest friendliness was displayed".
On 31 January, a large number of strikers (contemporary estimates range from 20,000 to 25,000) congregated in George Square. They were awaiting an answer to the telegram the Lord Provost of Glasgow had sent to the Prime Minister on behalf of a delegation of strikers on 29 January, asking the government to intervene. Accounts differ on what initiated the violence on the day, but police testimony at the following trials records that the police baton charged the striking workers at 12:20.Evening News, 31 January 1919 As the fighting started in George Square, a Clyde Workers' Committee deputation was in the Glasgow City Chambers meeting with the Lord Provost of Glasgow.
She was first elected to Edinburgh District Council as a member of the Scottish Labour Party to represent the Telford ward in 1984, later becoming leader of the district council. In 1996 she was elected to represent the Muirhouse and Drylaw ward in the new City of Edinburgh unitary authority. Following the local elections in May 2007 she was one of four councillors representing the new Inverleith ward. She was elected the Lord Provost of Edinburgh on 8 May 2003, succeeding Eric Milligan, however following elections on 3 May 2007, the Labour Party lost overall control of the City of Edinburgh and was succeeded in the office of Lord Provost by Liberal Democrat George Grubb.
The next Town Clerk was Sir James Rocheid. In 1667 Sir Andrew Ramsay received a letter from Charles II stating that in future the Chief Magistrate of Edinburgh should be permanently styled Lord Provost of Edinburgh, with the same rank and precedence as the Lord Mayor of London and Dublin.
John Murdoch of Rosebank (1709-1776) was an 18th-century Scottish tobacco lord who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow three times:1746 to 1748, 1750 to 1752 and 1758 to 1760, in a pattern interspersed with his brother-in-law Andrew Cochrane. Murdoch Avenue in Cambuslang is named after him.
Sir William Lowrie Sleigh JP DL (1866–1945) was a Scottish businessman who co- founded the bicycle company the Ross & Sleigh Cycle Company (later renamed Rossleigh and expanding to sell cars). The company later evolved into Lowrie Sleigh Chauffeur Services. Sleigh served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1923 to 1926.
In 1705 he was member of a syndicate that was assigned farm of the customs and foreign excise of Scotland for three years. He was Lord Provost of Edinburgh for the year 1713 to 1714. Warrender was a Whig, having been fined as a dissenter under James II, and supported the Hanoverian succession.
Sir James Bell, 1st Baronet, DL JP (1850 - 1929) was a 19th-century Scottish shipping owner and coal-exporter who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1892 to 1896. He was senior partner of Bell Brothers & McLelland, shipowners, usually using D & W Henderson Ltd as their builder, mainly using the Meadowside shipyard.
James Stewart was the fourth son of Sir James Steuart of Coltness (1608–1681), a banker in Edinburgh and Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and Anne Hope, niece of Sir Thomas Hope. He was the brother of Sir Robert Steuart, 1st Baronet of Allanbank (1643–1707) and Sir Thomas Stewart of Coltness, 1st Baronet.
He was descended from William Bunnock who famously retook Linlithgow Peel from the English in 1313. He was owner of Wallyford House (near Musselburgh) in (and perhaps prior to) 1672, when the house was remodelled. He was succeeded as Lord Provost in 1677 by Francis Kinloch. He died on 7 January 1711.
Liberton Tower Liberton House William Little mausoleum, Greyfriars Kirkyard William Little (or Littil) of Liberton (1525-1601) was a 16th-century Scottish merchant and landowner who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1586/87 and 1591/92.List of Lord Provosts: Edinburgh City Chambers He was one of the founders of Edinburgh University.
He lived in Blackford, south of Edinburgh. In 1710 he succeeded Sir Patrick Johnston as Lord Provost. He died in office in October 1711 and was replaced by Sir Robert Blackwood of Pitreavie.List of Lord Provosts of Edinburgh: Edinburgh City Chambers He is buried in the Covenanters Prison section of Greyfriars Kirkyard.
He married, firstly, in 1857, Louisa Maria Burer Valiant (d.1878), daughter of Major-General Sir Thomas Valiant; and, secondly, in 1879, Jane Florence Harriette Reid, daughter of Lestock Robert Reid, of the Bombay Civil Service. Between his two wives he had at least ten children. His uncle, John Learmonth, was Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
In 1867 the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Sir William Chambers, who was also a director of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, paid for Bobby's licence and gave the dog a collar, now in the Museum of Edinburgh.Education Scotland website (11 February 2013).Edinburgh Museums and Galleries website (11 February 2013).
Significant Scots: Patrick Colquhoun, Electric Scotland. Retrieved 4 February 2007. He built an estate in the West End (now part of Kelvingrove Park) and, on 22 July 1775, married his cousin Janet, the daughter of James Colquhoun, the Provost of Dumbarton. Between 1782 and 1784, Patrick Colquhoun himself served as the Lord Provost of Glasgow.
The opening ceremony for the station was conducted by the Marquis of Aberdeen at 9pm on 10 October 1923, followed by a performance from the Band of the 2nd Gordon Highlanders. Those attending the launch included the Lord Provost of Aberdeen, BBC MD John Reith, station director R. E. Jeffery, and chief engineer Peter Eckersley.
Sir William Stevenson Gray LLD (1928-2000) was a 20th century Scottish business director and Chairman of Clan FM who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1972 to 1975. He was Chairman of the Scottish Special Housing Association from 1966 to 1972 and also the first Chairman of the Scottish Development Agency in 1975.
Education Scotland website (11 February 2013). In 1867 the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Sir William Chambers, who was also a director of the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, paid for Bobby's licence and gave the dog a collar, now in the Museum of Edinburgh.Edinburgh Museums and Galleries website (11 February 2013).
The second election to Tayside Regional Council was held on 2 May 1978 as part of the wider 1978 Scottish regional elections. The election saw the Conservatives maintain their control of the region, gaining an absolute majority. following the election the Conservative former Lord Provost of Dundee, William K. Fitzgerald, became convener of the council.
George Walker, the Episcopal Minister of Old Meldrum Church (1734-1781). Their father, William Walker, was Attorney in Exchequer, and Bearer of the White Rod of Scotland. William Street nearby is named after him. Their mother was Mary Drummond, daughter of George Drummond, six times Lord Provost of Edinburgh and initiator of the New Town.
Rubislaw Terrace Gardens a small park in the centre of Aberdeen, near Queens Cross. Stewart Park (5 acres (20,000 m2)) opened in 1894 and is situated in the Hilton area. The park was named after a former Lord Provost of the city, Sir David Stewart. There are sections is reserved for cricket and football matches.
Sir James King Sir James King, 1st Baronet, FRSE (13 July 1830 - 1 October 1911) was a Scottish businessman who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow 1886 to 1889. He was Director of the Clydesdale Bank for over forty years. He was also Chairman of the Caledonian Railway Company.Sir James King The Glasgow Story.
In the United Kingdom and other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, an equivalent service to direct distance dialing is subscriber trunk dialing (STD), and ISD for international subscriber trunk dialing. The Queen inaugurated STD on 5 December 1958, when she dialed a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and spoke to the Lord Provost.
That sum, however, was to cover the cost of the building only and the site upon which it was built was gifted separately by the former Lord Provost of Dundee Charles Barrie, to serve the Northern Dundee area. Charles Barrie was born in Coldside and the property he gifted was part of his family’s property in that area.
The men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the swimming programme took place on 25 July at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland. The medals were presented by Councillor Sadie Docherty, Lord Provost of Glasgow and the quaichs were presented by Fiona Kerr, Managing Director of First Glasgow.
The grave of John Ure Primrose, Craigton Cemetery Sir John Ure Primrose DL LLD (1847-1924) was a Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1902 to 1905 and as Chairman of Rangers Football Club from 1912 to 1923. He was also Chairman of the Clyde Navigation Trust.John Ure Primrose Retrieved 1 July 2018.
In 1809 Smith married Mary Wilson (granddaughter of Alexander Wilson and niece of Patrick Wilson) in 1809. Their son Archibald Smith of Jordanhill was a barrister and mathematician. His cousin was the insurance broker and philanthropist William Euing FRSE (1788-1874). His younger brother was William Smith of Carbeth Guthrie was Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1822 to 1824.
The grave, flanked by short granite columns, lies on the west outer side of the central enclosure. He also has a very large memorial on the northern slope of the Glasgow Necropolis overlooking Glasgow Cathedral. Carstairs House was bought by Sir James King, also a former Lord Provost of Glasgow, in 1899.Sir King James Retrieved 2 July 2018.
In 1820 he succeeded Henry Monteith as Lord Provost. He then bought Moore Park, a simple Georgian villa by David Hamilton in the Broomloan district of Glasgow. The house was photographed in 1870 by Thomas Annan just prior to its demolition for railway improvements in the city. He died on 19 July 1857 in Richmond, Surrey.
265, 304.Dunlop 1988, p. 98. The Old Kirk congregation was suppressed in 1860.Marshall 2009, p. 125. At a public meeting in Edinburgh City Chambers on 1 November 1867, William Chambers, publisher and Lord Provost of Edinburgh, first advanced his ambition to remove the internal partitions and restore St Giles' as a "Westminster Abbey for Scotland".
Baron Bruntisfield, of Boroughmuir in the City of Edinburgh, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1942 for the Scottish Conservative politician and former Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, Sir Victor Warrender, 8th Baronet. The Warrender family descends from George Warrender. He was Lord Provost of Edinburgh and represented Edinburgh in Parliament.
Glasgow Post Office Directory 1880 In 1881 supporters of the temperance movement erected a fountain in his name, in Glasgow Green. :"Erected by temperance reformers in recognition of valuable services rendered to the temperance cause by Sir William Collins, Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow 1877-1880. 29 October 1881." He died on 20 February 1895.
John Stewart (died 29 May 1947) was a Scottish politician who served as the first Labour Lord Provost of Glasgow. Born in Perth, Stewart moved to Glasgow as a child. He completed an apprenticeship as a brushmaker, and developed an interest in socialism, through the influence of Keir Hardie. He was the first socialist elected to Govan Parish Council.
He only mentioned the Vestiges to note that Robert's suspected authorship was used as a means to discredit him when he ran for the office of Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1848. The secret was finally revealed in 1884, when Alexander Ireland issued a new 12th edition with Robert's name and an introduction explaining the circumstances behind its publication.
Monumental arch, Observatory Road Monument at the foot of the road leading to Edinburgh University's observatory and the Blackford Hill. Erected in 1888 to commemorate 'the work and character' of George Harrison MP 'whose life was devoted to the public good' Sir George Harrison (1811 – 23 December 1885) was Lord Provost of Edinburgh and a Liberal politician.
In certain burghs the title Lord Provost was to be continued. The Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1903 (3 Edw. VII. c.33) amended the 1892 Act and included a number of provisions relating to building within a burgh. The burgh was to maintain a register of plans and petitions (in modern terms a register of planning permissions).
He was married to Marion Montgomery and had two sons and four daughters. His eldest son James Buchanan of Drumpellier (1726-1786) was twice Lord Provost of Glasgow. His second son was George Buchanan of Mount Vernon (1728-1762). His daughter Mary Buchanan married Alexander Speirs of Elderslie in 1755 and he too then became a tobacco lord.
Aberdeen Corporation Act 1899 c.lx "An Act to provide for the constitution of the City and Royal Burgh of Aberdeen as a County of a City, to authorise the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the said City and Burgh, to execute sewage works; and for other purposes" It remained part of the lieutenancy area of Aberdeenshire.
Bust of Duncan McLaren, Edinburgh City Chambers Duncan McLaren Memorial The McLaren monument, St Cuthberts, Edinburgh Duncan McLaren (12 January 1800 – 26 April 1886) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician and political writer. He served as a member of the burgh council of Edinburgh, then as Lord Provost, then as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Edinburgh constituency.
He stood in West Aberdeenshire at the 1951 UK general election, again taking second place. Hogg served on Aberdeen City Council for 21 years, and was Lord Provost of Aberdeen from 1964 to 1967. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Hogg's son, also Norman Hogg, became a Labour Party Member of Parliament.
James Bain, Lord Provost, and on Monday 5th November its doors were opened to the public. By 1977, it laid claim to being the largest public reference library in Europe. The tobacco business finally merged with W. D. & H. O. Wills in 1901. Wills then amalgamated with other tobacco companies to become the Imperial Tobacco Company.
Sir William Binning of Wallyford (1627–1711) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1675–1677. Victorian writer Margaret Oliphant was born in Wallyford on 4 April 1828. Among her best-known works were Katie Stewart, The Carlingford Chronicles and Tales of the Seen and Unseen. She died in Wimbledon on 25 June 1897 and was buried in Eton Cemetery near Windsor.
Deputy lieutenants of Aberdeen are commissioned by the Lord Provost of Aberdeen who, since 1899 by virtue of office, is also Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeen City. The Lieutenancy Area of Aberdeen City was formerly known as the County of the City of Aberdeen - not to be confused with the County of Aberdeen, which is now known as Aberdeenshire.
His proposers were William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, Sir Charles Wyville Thomson, Sir James David Marwick and James Bryce. He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1887 following her official visit to the city. In 1888 he oversaw the Glasgow International Exhibition in his role of Lord Provost. He was then raised to the rank of Baronet.
This is a list of lord mayoralties and lord provostships in the United Kingdom. The dignity of having a lord mayor as civic head is granted to certain districts enjoying city status in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. In Scotland the similar office of lord provost is reserved for the convener of the four largest cities.
Charles Leslie Falconer was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 19 November 1951, the son of John Leslie Falconer, a solicitor, and his wife Anne Mansel. His paternal grandfather was John Ireland Falconer, a former Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Falconer was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Trinity College, Glenalmond. He read Law at Queens' College, Cambridge.
116Margaret Macauley, The Prisoner of St Kilda: The true story of the unfortunate Lady Grange. Edinburgh: Luath, 2009. ) The assailant made no attempt to escape and confessed at his trial, held before the Lord Provost, Magnus Prince (or Prize), the next day. Two days later he was taken from the Tolbooth to the Mercat Cross on the High Street.
From 1856 to 1859 he was Lord Provost of Aberdeen. He was also chairman of the Scottish Provincial Assurance Company and a member of the University Court of Aberdeen University. He was awarded LLD in 1877.Debretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1881 At the 1880 general election Webster was elected Member of Parliament for Aberdeen.
Sir Robert Chieslie of Dalry (sometimes spelled Cheislie, Chiesley or Chishley) (c. 1650 - c. 1705) was a 17th-century Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1694 to 1696. Given the rarity of the name he is probably Robert Cheislay listed as MP for Edinburgh within the Scottish Parliament from 1692 to 1702.
Sir Patrick Johnston (1650-1736) of Edinburgh was a Scottish merchant and politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1702 to 1707 and as a Whig in the British House of Commons between 1707 and 1713. He was Lord Provost of Edinburgh three times from 1700 to 1702, from 1704 to 1706, and from 1708 to 1710.
Two-hundred years before the Song of the Lioness series, Rebekah (Beka) Cooper was born in the Cesspool, which is the worst slum in the Lower City—the crime-ridden, poverty-filled latter half of the capital city of Tortall. When her mother was attacked by one of the members of the then rampant Bold Brass Gang, the eight-year-old Beka tracked them down and pestered the Provost's Guard—the police of the realm—until the Lord Provost himself finally listened to her. After catching the rats—the lingo for criminals—the Lord Provost takes Beka and her family in, though unfortunately, her mother dies soon later from lung cancer. Beka's two younger brothers and sisters, however, remain happily at Lord Gershom's home as maids, couriers, and other respectable positions.
Bilsland was the eldest surviving son of Sir William Bilsland, 1st Baronet, Lord Provost of Glasgow, and his wife, Agnes Anne Steven, daughter of Alexander Steven, of Provanside, Glasgow. He was the brother-in-law of Lord Clydesmuir. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He was head of Bilsland Brothers Ltd, bakers, of Glasgow, founded by his uncle James Bilsland.
The Society is run by a council whose membership includes the President, General Secretary, other office bearers and various ordinary members. In addition the Lord Provost of Dundee, the Provost of Perth and Kinross, the Provost of Angus, the Principal of the University of Dundee and the Principal of the University of St Andrews all serve as Honorary Presidents of the Society.
Helen Crummy was born in Leith, Helen Murray Prentice. She became one of the first residents in a new council housing estate at Craigmillar in 1931 when her family moved to the estate which became one of the poorest areas of Edinburgh. Her family were also neighbours of the family of Jack Kane, the first Labour Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
John Ure Primrose Retrieved 1 July 2018. He was created Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1902, replacing Sir Samuel Chisholm, 1st Baronet. His Private Secretary was John Smith Samuel. He was created Baronet of Redholme, Dumbreck in the Parish of Govan, in the County of the City of Glasgow on the occasion of the visit of King Edward VII to Glasgow in 1903.
He married Margaret Gourlay. They had two sons, James and George, who both initially joined the family firm. James Jr was head of the Clydesdale Bank from 1851 until his death,Sir James Lumsden (Mitchell Library, The Bailie), The Glasgow Story and was also Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1866 to 1869. He was knighted in 1868 as Sir James Lumsden of Arden.
He was married to Isabella Dibb. Their children included the politician Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde. His three other sons ran the family bakery and flour business. His sister Annie Ure, married the merchant-baker William Primrose, and his nephew (their son) was John Ure Primrose, who was named after him, and served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1902 to 1905.
In 1857 Blackie joined Glasgow town council as a Liberal councillor. He became burgh magistrate in 1859. In 1863 he was elected Lord Provost and served for three years, succeeding to Peter Clouston. His main achievement in this role was in the instigation and implementation of Glasgow's City Improvement Act of 1865 which began a programme of slum clearance and rebuilding.
He was a leading member of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce from 1830 until death. He was elected Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1837 aged only 37, one of the city's youngest Lord Provosts. During his period in office he lived at 86 Miller Street in Glasgow. His was a bitterly contested election which had to be settled by the House of Lords.
He was born in Aberdeen in 1803 the fourth son of Alexander Brown, a bookseller, and twice Lord Provost of Aberdeen, and his wife, Catharine Chalmers. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School. He studied Divinity at Aberdeen University graduating in 1821. He was licensed to preach in 1826 then went to London for two years to work with Edward Irving.
He married his second wife, Jemima Huddleston (1838-1905) of Ryde, Isle of Wight, in 1864. The couple produced one daughter, Fanny, and settled in Edinburgh where Hay set up a new practice. In 1871 he was hired by Sir William Chambers, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, to oversee the restoration of St. Giles' Cathedral which took place from 1872-1884.
This is enshrined in the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. Elgin Town Council decided to call the royal burgh a city in the mid 19th century. The provost of a city is entitled to the title “lord provost”. However, Elgin’s claim to be a city was never ratified by either the Lord Lyon or the Convention of Royal Burghs.
He won the Military Cross for bravery. From 1922 to 1924 he served as Lord Provost of Perth and was also Deputy Lieutenant of Perthshire. On the death of his father in 1929 he succeeded to the title of Baron Forteviot. He also held the title of Brigadier in the Royal Company of Archers, the monarch's official bodyguard in Scotland.
Coltart was born in Gwelo, Midlands Province, in the former Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. He was born an only child to a Scottish bank manager father and a South African nurse mother. His mother was the descendant of British settlers who settled in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1820. His Scottish grandfather was Deputy Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1938.
Adam Black was twice Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and represented the city in parliament from 1856 to 1865. He retired from business in 1865, and died on 24 January 1874. He was succeeded by his sons, who removed their business in 1895 to London. In 1877 a bronze statue by John Hutchison of Adam Black was erected in East Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh.
The Church responded by excommunicating Archbishop Montgomery. Howison was released from prison after three days. The General Assembly, meeting later that month also tried to excommunicate the Lord Provost of Glasgow and his supporters. These did not bother to appear to their answer charges and the King called the case to his own Council, meeting at Perth on 6 July.
Donaldson was commissioned to paint the Queen in 1966. He was appointed Painter and Limner to Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland in 1977. Amongst his other notable subjects were Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and many prominent figures in Scottish public life, such as Sir John Greig Dunbar, Lord Provost of Edinburgh. His work is represented in public collections worldwide.
His proposers were Sir William Turner, Alexander Crum Brown, Andrew Douglas Maclagan, and Sir John Murray. In 1880 he became a Councillor in Edinburgh and was made a Bailie in 1885. The city made him Lord Provost in 1891. He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1894, also receiving an honorary doctorate (LLD) from the University of Edinburgh in the same year.
Ardross Castle Cawdor Castle Terraces of Ellon Castle Aldourie Castle Macduff Parish Church James Matthews (1819-1898) was a prominent 19th century architect in northern Scotland who also served as Lord Provost of Aberdeen from 1883 to 1886 during which time he enacted an important city improvement plan. His work as an architect is largely in the Scots baronial style.
The right to appoint a Lord Mayor is a rare honour, even less frequently bestowed than city status; a Lord Provost also acts as Lord Lieutenant of their city. Currently, only the cities of Belfast and Armagh have a Lord Mayor, with the latter being conferred with the honorific title by the Queen as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
He became Member of Parliament for Renfrewshire in 1722, and represented the constituency until 1727. He was appointed as Commissioner of the Excise for Scotland from 1730 until 1764. He supported the Hanoverians during the Jacobite rising of 1745. He later gave evidence in court against Archibald Stewart, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who had surrendered the city to the Jacobites.
The works cost around . Until the completion of the Kincardine Bridge, also in Scotland, in 1936, it is thought to have been the longest clear swing bridge span in Britain (The Swing Bridge, River Tyne, completed two years after the Victoria Bridge, has a longer deck span). After restoration, it was reopened on 22 November 2000 by Eric Milligan, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
In 2012, Duckett was awarded the Lord Provost of Glasgow Education Award "for founding the Scottish Centre for China Research at the University of Glasgow". In July 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the UK's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2019.
Sir Thomas Paxton, 1st Baronet (9 May 1860 – 15 March 1930), was a Scottish politician. Paxton was Lord Provost of Glasgow and Lord-Lieutenant of Glasgow between 1920 and 1923. He was created a baronet, of Letham in the Parish of Monimail in the County of Fife, in 1923. He declined to contest Glasgow Central in the 1923 general election.
It is a triangular piece of land in length and around at its widest point. An area called Argyll's Bowling Green is part of the estate. Three farms were included in the gift and they are Beach, Coilessan and Lochgoilhead. In November 1905 Corbett contacted the Lord Provost stating that he wanted to add some more land to the gift.
In the war he served in RAF Coastal Command. In 1971, Hodge joined the Glasgow City Council. He later served as chairman of the magistrates committee and then as chairman of the licensing committee in 1974 after a reorganisation of the local government. He served as chairman of Glasgow Constituency Labour Party before becoming Lord Provost of Glasgow from May 1977 to 1980.
Her late owner's friend John Traill (Edmund Gwenn), his law student son William (Ross Ford), and the keepers of the graveyard struggle to keep Lassie hidden from the zealous police Sergeant Davie (Reginald Owen) and the town magistrate (Edmund Breon). Matters are brought to a head when they must go to court to plead for the dog's life before the Lord Provost.
Kanan Devan was formed in 1897 to hold a tract of land in North Travancore. Anglo American Direct Tea Trading formed in 1898; in addition to the acreage it acquired it formed large distribution businesses. Like Kirkman Finlay before him, Sir John Muir’s commercial achievements brought public recognition. He too became a Lord Provost and was created a Baronet in 1892.
He was born in Edinburgh on 22 November 1845 the son of Alison Black, daughter of Adam Black, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and her husband James Richardson FRSE (d.1868), a merchant. He was educated at Edinburgh High School then Edinburgh Academy 1857 to 1861. He also spent at least a year at the Kreuzschule in Dresden (indicating that he had musical abilities).
He lost his seat in 1935, but was re-elected in 1937. He served as convener of the council's education committee and was reportedly known across Scotland for his work in this role. In 1940 he became Lord Provost of Dundee, a post he held until 1946. His selection was unusual, as he had not served as a magistrate or as treasurer.
The present Castle Toward was built in 1820 for Kirkman Finlay (1773–1842), former Lord Provost of Glasgow, as his family's country house. Finlay purchased the Achavoulin estate and renamed it Toward in 1818. It is built in the castellated Gothic Revival style, and was designed by David Hamilton. Edward La Trobe Bateman was involved in garden design work here in the 1880s.
Glenarbuck House is a Category B listed building in Bowling. It was built in 1804 for the merchant Gilbert Hamilton (1744-1808) who was the first president of the Glasgow Humane Society, a founding member of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and Glasgow's Lord Provost in 1792. Later owners included the Duke of Sutherland and the Scott family of the shipbuilders Scott and Sons.
Milne was the eldest son of Alexander Milne of Crimonmogate, an Aberdeen merchant. His mother, Margaret, was the daughter of Patrick Bannerman, Lord Provost of Aberdeen from 1715–1716. His father was a partner in the linen company Gordon, Barron & Co. and the Porthill Company that later became Milne, Cruden, & Company. These companies had extensive factories in Aberdeen and Donside.
Cardownie was a Socialist Workers Party member before he joined the Scottish Labour Party in 1983. He was first elected as a Labour councillor in 1988. He held a number of positions within the party in Edinburgh including Group Secretary, Whip and Deputy Lord Provost. He was also involved in the trade union movement serving on the national executive of the Civil and Public Services Association (CPSA).
He was born in Glasgow in 1801 the son of Francis Orr, originally a pocket book maker at 15 Princes StreetGlasgow Post Office directory 1801 but later the founder of Francis Orr & Sons stationers. He became a town councillor in 1842 and was elected Lord Provost in 1854. He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1858. During his period in office he lived at 5 Blythswood Square.
He became President of the Scottish Swimming Association in 1946. In 1950, Barnie became the first Scot and oldest person to swim the English Channel. In 1978 the Lord Provost presented him with a tie celebrating his three Channel swims in 1951. In May 2018 it was proposed by the City of Edinburgh Council that a new street in Portobello, Barnie Terrace, would be named after him.
Robert Murray (died 1719) was a Scottish soldier. He was a younger son of Sir Robert Murray, Lord Provost of Edinburgh. His elder brother, Alexander Murray of Melgund, was the father of Sir Alexander Murray, 1st Baronet. On 8 January 1681 Murray was commissioned as captain-lieutenant of the Earl of Linlithgow's company in that nobleman's regiment of Foot Guards, now the Scots Guards.
Plaque to Lavinia Malcolm, Burnside, Dollar Lavinia Malcolm's home - Burnside House in Dollar Lavinia Malcolm's grave in Dollar churchyard Lavinia Malcolm nee Lavinia Laing (c. 1847 – 2 November 1920) was a Scottish suffragist and local Liberal Movement politician, the first Scottish woman to be elected to a local council (1907) and the first female Lord Provost in Scotland: in the burgh town of Dollar, Clackmannanshire.
The Chancellor is the titular head of the University of Edinburgh. Their duties include conferring degrees, promoting the University's image throughout the world, and furthering its interests, both within Scotland and beyond. The position was created in 1858; prior to this the University was governed by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Edinburgh. Candidates for the position are nominated and elected by alumni.
He was Lord Provost of Aberdeen from 1898 to 1902 and MP for Aberdeen South from 1917 to 1918. He was the first Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeen, and the younger brother of Robert Fleming. He contested Aberdeen South again at the 1918 general election when aged over 70, but was heavily defeated by the Unionist Frederick Thomson. He was also first Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeen.
Dundas was created a Baronet of Beechwood in the County of Midlothian on 24 August 1821. In 1823 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet during his second term as Lord Provost of Edinburgh. He died at his Edinburgh townhouse, 32 Heriot RowEdinburgh and Leith Post Office directory 1835–36 on 4 January 1835.
Lord Provost, Edinburgh, 1906–09. He was the successful Liberal candidate for the Edinburgh East Division at the 1909 Edinburgh East by-election. He sat until his death in 1912 aged 62.British parliamentary election results 1885-1918, Craig, F.W.S. He is buried on the north side of the main east-west path in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh under a large pale grey granite obelisk.
Lindsay was Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1729 to 1731 and again from 1733 to 1735. He was returned as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh by Lord Ilay at the 1734 British general election. He made his first reported speech in support of the army estimates on 14 February 1735. During the Porteous Riots in September 1736, the rioters took over the town of Edinburgh.
Alexander Stevenson was born on 9 April 1860 at Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland. His family moved and he was educated at Grange School, Bo'ness, in West Lothian. He became a jeweller and watchmaker and entered Edinburgh Town Council as a Liberal in 1900. He was Convener of the Electricity Committee 1904–1906 and 1909–1915; Magistrate 1906–1909; City Treasurer 1922–1925; and Lord Provost 1926–1929.
David Hodge (13 September 1909 - 9 December 1991) was Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1977 to 1980. He was a member of the Scottish Labour Party. Hodge was born in Glasgow, to David Hodge Sr., an employee at the gasworks, and Sarah Hodge (née Crilly). In his youth he played football for Greenock Morton F.C. before embarking on a career as an insurance agent.
The convention of royal burghs also promised him £100 to promote their interests. At Michaelmas 1708, he was succeeded as Lord Provost by Johnston, who returned to office after a period of self-imposed exile. His record in Parliament does show much activity, and he did not meet any of his constituent's objectives, but he claimed an additional sum of £106 7s. 2d in expenses.
Pringle (1996), p.7 Sir Simon served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh for several years, and was a loyal supporter of Queen Mary, who appointed him to her Privy Council. Mary, Queen of Scots, and her husband Lord Darnley, whose murder was arranged at Craigmillar Queen Mary stayed at Craigmillar twice, in September 1563 and from 20 November to 7 December 1566.Pringle (1996), p.
On 9 April 1494, he married Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, and Mary Stewart, Princess of Scotland, daughter of King James II of Scotland. Stewart and Elizabeth Hamilton had six children: Mungo Stewart, Agnes Stewart, John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox, Margaret Stewart, Elizabeth Stewart, and Catherine Stewart. He was Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1497, and from 1509–1513.
Michael Kelly (born 1940) is a Scottish Labour politician and businessman. He graduated from the University of Strathclyde and became a lecturer in Economics there and a Labour councillor. From 1984 he was Managing Director of Michael Kelly Associates, a PR company. He held the position of Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1980 to 1984, and was Rector of the University of Glasgow from 1984 to 1987.
Each of the 32 Scottish local authorities elects a convener or provost, but it is only the four main cities, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee that have a Lord Provost. This is enshrined in the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. The Provost of Peterhead painted by Edward Burton after Sir John Watson-Gordon, is of Roderick Grey, the portrait now being in the Scottish National Gallery.
West St Giles, Edinburgh, now the Bedlam Theatre 15 Buccleuch Place in Edinburgh He was born in Aberdeen on 21 August 1806, the youngest son of Alexander Brown, a bookseller and twice Lord Provost of Aberdeen, himself son of Rev William Brown of Craigdam. His mother was Catharine Chalmers. His older brothers included David Brown. He was ordained at Anderston Church in Glasgow in 1831.
For more information, see Foulis baronets. The Primrose Baronetcy, of Redholme, Dumbreck, in Govan in the County of the City of Glasgow, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 7 July 1903 for John Primrose. He was a senior partner in the firm of William Primrose and Sons, flour millers, of Glasgow, and served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1903 to 1905.
He was a popular wartime leader and was knighted for his services to Dundee in 1944. Among his achievements as Lord Provost was his role in persuading the N.C.R. to make Dundee the base of its operations in the United Kingdom in 1945. He also helped establish an airport in the city. In 1952 Wilson was appointed as chairman of the Glenrothes Development Corporation.
Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1892 In 1910 he lived at 50 Lauder Road in the Grange.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910 In 1923 he replaced Sir Thomas Hutchison as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and was replaced in turn by Sir Alexander Stevenson in 1926. He was knighted by King George V in 1924.London Gazette 3 June 1924 He died on 5 May 1945 aged 79.
Robert Macaulay Stevenson was born in Glasgow in 1854. He was one of four sons and three girls born to Jessie Macaulay and John Stevenson, an engineer. His brother Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson was a Liberal politician, Lord Provost of Glasgow and Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. Stevenson initially studied engineering however later changed to study art at the Glasgow School of Design.
In 1830 Thompson married Christiana Kidd, a daughter of James Kidd, an evangelical preacher. They had four sons and four daughters. One daughter married William Henderson, who would later succeed him as chairman of the Line and then serve as Lord Provost of Aberdeen, being knighted in 1893. In 1908 Thompson's granddaughter, Muriel Thompson, won the first ever Ladies' Race at Brooklands race track.
William Dick of Braid in 1640 William Dick of Braid's Coat of Arms William Dick coinage Sir William Dick of Braid (1580-1655) was a 17th-century Scottish landowner, banker and merchant who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1638 to 1640. His fortunes took him from being "the richest man in Scotland" in 1650 to his death as a pauper a few years later.
He married Elizabeth Morrison. Their eldest son and heir was John Dick of Braid (1610-1642) who died young. Other children included Alexander Dick of Heugh (1618-1663), Andrew Dick, William Dick (Baron Grange), Lewis Dick, Elizabeth Dick and Janet Dick. Alexander Dick was forefather to the Dick-Cunyngham baronets and the Dicks of Prestonfield, including James Dick of Prestonfield, Lord Provost 1679/81 .
Stewart trained in accountancy before acquiring his father's iron and coal business at Cleland. Discovery of a seam of blackband ironstone led to considerable wealth. He joined the Glasgow Town Council in 1842 and took up a series of posts: as river bailie in 1843, ordinary magistrate in 1845 and senior bailie or acting chief magistrate in 1847. He was active, on horseback and in his office, in suppressing civil disturbances in 1848. He period as Lord Provost, which ended in 1854, coincided with the question of a water supply for Glasgow. He retired from the council at the end of 1855 and died on 12 September 1866. He had married Isabella King in 1852 and she, along with a daughter and two sons, survived him. MR. STEWART, like several of his predecessors in the office of Lord Provost, was a native of Glasgow. He was born in 1810.
Benny Lynch the great Glasgow boxer also is buried in Lambhill Cemetery which is bordered by Western Necropolis. Hillend Road would appear to be one of the earliest streets to be built and the houses are of mixed vintage and build. The tenements are probably the oldest. At one time the Lord Provost of Glasgow David Hodge stayed in this street, as did John Logie Baird who took lodgings there.
In 1886 he became a town councillor representing the 13th ward in Glasgow. In 1905 he was elected Lord Provost, succeeding John Ure Primrose. He served until 1908 during which time he saw many artistic projects, in particular the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. During this period he lived at 28 Park CircusGlasgow Post Office Directory 1905 a beautiful, three-storey Georgian circus form, just east of Kelvingrove Park.
He lived nearby at West Nicholson Street in Edinburgh and practiced as a physician.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1794 In 1795 he moved to the University of St Andrews to replace Prof Forrest as Professor of Natural Philosophy (Physics). Prof Forrest apparently "sold" his chair to Rotherham as Forrest was keen to retire. However, Rotherham was personally recommended for the position by Sir James Stirling, 1st Baronet, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
Anderson was appointed Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1848 and was created a Knight Bachelor on Queen Victoria's visit in the following year. He held this post until 1851 and entered the British House of Commons in the next year, sitting for Stirling Burghs until 1859. He married Janet, the only daughter and heiress of Robert Hood, Bailie of Glasgow. The couple had three sons and a daughter.
William Bennet had died of cholera in 1832 and Clouston and then been made a junior partner with James Browne, but his name never appeared in the company title.William Euing Retrieved 2 July 2018. In 1854 he became a town councillor, rising to be Lord Provost in 1860. By this time he was living at 1 Park Terrace, a very attractive five storey Victorian end-terraced house close to Kelvinside Park.
The cemetery was established in 1871 by the Craigton Cemetery Company to serve south-west Glasgow, Govan and Partick. The original cemetery extended to 30 acres on lands of Wester Craigton and Merrylands, previously owned by Robert Urquhart. The main shareholder was Thomas Reid (1831-1900) of the Govan Dye Works. Fellow directors included Morris Pollok (1831-1899) and William McOnie (1813-1894) (later Lord Provost of Glasgow).
Glasgow Herald, obituaries 11 July 2000 After his positions at SSHA he was Chairman of the Clyde Tourist Association from 1972 to 1975, concurrently with his role as Lord Provost. He retired from the council in 1975 to become Chairman of the SDA. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in June 1974.London Gazette June 1974 He died of a heart attack on 9 July 2000 at Glasgow Western Infirmary.
Glasgow Post Office Directory 1826 In Glasgow Town Council he served as Dean of Guild 1823/24 and Lord Provost 1824 to 1826. In 1834 he received large compensation (over £50,000) for the loss of slaves (following the abolition of slavery in UK colonies) in British Guyana where he owned the Endeavour, Johanna, Enterprise, Annandale and Perth plantations. In 1850 he was living at 12 Moore Place in Glasgow.
In 1850 William was living at 24 Stafford Street.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1850 He ran the shop with his younger brother George, under the name of W & G Law at 31 St Andrew Square in Edinburgh and later expanded to 544 Oxford Street in London.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1878 In 1869 he succeeded William Chambers as Lord Provost. He was succeeded in turn by James Cowan in 1872.
The eldest son of James Lumsden who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1843 to 1846,James Lumsden, 100 Glasgow Men (published 1885)James Lumsden 1778 - 1856, Gazetteer for Scotland he was born at 60 Queen Street, Glasgow in 1808.Glasgow Post Office Directory 1818 His mother was Margaret Gourlay. He had one younger brother, known as George Lumsden of Drumsheugh Gardens. He was educated at Glasgow Grammar School.
Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1820 He qualified WS in 1827 and set up his own partnership Melville & Lindesay WS. In 1849 he was Chief Magistrate of Edinburgh.Caledonian Mercury 18 October 1849 He was also created a town councillor in 1853. In 1857 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Melville was knighted in 1859 by Queen Victoria at the end of his period as Lord Provost.
Margaret Chalmers was baptised on 12 December 1758 in Lerwick. Her father, William, is said to have been the son of a Lord Provost of Aberdeen, factor to Earl of Morton and tacksman of various local estates. Her mother Catherine (Kitty) Irvine was born in Trondra in 1734. Chalmers had four sisters and a brother, William, who joined the navy and was killed, aged 35, in the battle of Trafalgar.
In 1620 Henry Charteris resigned as Principal of the University, and Sands was appointed by the town council, in an act which "many thought scandalous nepotism" – Sands was the brother-in-law of David Aikinhead, a prominent councillor and future Lord Provost. The Principal had previously doubled as Professor of Divinity, but as Sands was not a theologian, Andrew Ramsay was separately appointed Professor of Divinity and Rector.
In 1827 Maria Theresa Short returned from the West Indies claiming to be Thomas's daughter. She claimed his Great Telescope, which was housed in the City Chambers, for her inheritance. She set up a Popular Observatory, which she opened in a wooden hut next to the Nelson Monument on Calton Hill. After continuous disagreements with the local council, the Lord Provost called for the observatory to be pulled down.
She struggles whenever someone references that she looks sad and must be missing Holborn throughout the book. Rosto, the Rogue of Corus and friends, takes care of her that evening. The next morning, Beka's companion Pounce, a constellation in the form of a cat, wakes her before dawn. Lord Gershom, Beka's patron, and Lord Provost, comes with the news that she and her scent hound Achoo are needed on a Hunt.
Charles Gordon's son was the soldier and MP Colonel John Gordon (c.1776–1858). The house is a category A listed building. In 1937 the then owner of the Hermitage, John McDougal, gifted the land to the city for use as a public park. A pillar in the grounds records the gift, and the subsequent opening of the park on 10 June 1938 by Lord Provost Sir Louis Gumley.
The Muir Baronetcy, of Deanston in the County of Perth and of Park Gardens in the City of Glasgow, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 20 October 1892 for John Muir, Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1889 to 1892. The second Baronet served as High Sheriff of County Waterford in 1929. The third Baronet was a Deputy Lieutenant of Perthshire.
On his retirement as Lord Provost, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeen. He was an active member of the Free Church of Scotland, and involved in many philanthropical endeavours. He was knighted in Queen Victoria's 1893 Birthday Honours, and in 1895 awarded an honorary degree of LL.D. by Aberdeen University. In 1852 he married a daughter of George Thompson, and they had 5 sons and 5 daughters.
In 1835, after the return of Mons Meg to Edinburgh Castle, the London-made carriage rotted away, too, and fabrication of a cast-iron replacement was undertaken. Mons Meg is now mounted on a reproduction of the carriage depicted in a carving of circa 1500 on a wall of Edinburgh Castle, built in 1934 at a cost of £178 and paid for by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
The front and side porticos, foundation and basement walls of the Maternity Hospital were preserved, and incorporated into the design of the park. Rottenrow Gardens was officially opened on 25 June 2004 as part of the University's 40th anniversary celebrations by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Councillor Liz Cameron.Trail 7 Some elements of the park will be permanent, others being temporary in anticipation of future Strathclyde campus expansion and renewal.
In 1850 he was Director of Muir Brown & Co based ar 296 St Vincent St.Glasgow Post Office directory 1850 He was a director of A & W Arthur, a warehouse company in Glasgow. He lived at 20 Buccleuch Street in the city.Glasgow Post Office Directory 1870 In 1869 he succeeded Sir James Lumsden as Lord Provost of Edinburgh. He was succeeded in turn in 1871 by Sir James Watson.
Mosson served prison sentences in the 1960s for housebreaking, shoplifting and assault, which he attributed to being an alcoholic at the time; an affliction he later overcame.Council threatens to throw the book at author, The Scotsman, 21 June 2008 He was first elected as a Glasgow councillor for Anderston in 1984. He was elected Lord Provost in 1999, replacing Pat Lally. He was succeeded in 2003 by Liz Cameron.
Kalākaua arrived in Glasgow on September 7. The Lord Provost of Glasgow and the magistrates hosted the King at a dinner party, where he gave a speech praising the contributions of Scotsmen in Hawaii. For the rest of his stay, he toured Loch Lomond and the River Clyde. Visiting Edinburgh on September 9, he toured Dreghorn Castle and the Royal Botanic Garden, where he planted two maple trees.
The Low, later Morrison-Low Baronetcy, of Kilmaron in the County of Fife, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 27 November 1908 for Sir James Low, Lord Provost of Dundee from 1893 to 1896. He was the son of William Low and his wife Janet, daughter of Alexander Morrison. The second Baronet assumed by deed poll the additional surname of Morrison.
He stood for election as Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1833 in succession to John Learmonth of Dean. He stood against James Aytoun (an advocate and uncle of William Edmondstoune Aytoun) in the important first election following the Burgh Reform Act of 1833. In the election campaign of 1833 there were both pro-Spittal and anti- Spittal election songs created. The pro song was entitled "Huzza for Provost Spittal".
Unsurprisingly the opposing song was "Huzza for Provost Aytoun". The song alludes to his having recently purchased a country house called Justice Hall in Lauder in Berwickshire from James Justice Esq. At this time he is living separate from his family at 11 Nicholson Square in south Edinburgh.Edinburgh and Leith post Office directory 1833-34 He was succeeded as Lord Provost by Sir James Forrest, 1st Baronet of Comiston.
George IV landing at Leith, 1822 On the occasion of George IV's arrival at the start of first royal visit by the reigning Monarch, in two centuries, ably choreographed by Sir Walter Scott in 1822, the Leith High Constables paraded when King George IV arrived at Leith Harbour. A large ceremonial portrayal of the occasion, was commissioned from Alexander Carse and was hung in the old Leith City Chambers, now occupied by the Leith branch of Police Scotland. Leith High Constables were guard of honour along Leith Links during the later visit of Queen Victoria in 1842, when their contribution was praised to the Monarch by the Lord Provost: 'In consequence of the universal feeling of satisfaction and joy, which pervaded all classes, aided by the excellent arrangements of the High Constables and Moderators, the utmost regularity and good order prevailed;' The High Constables would also attend with the Lord Provost at Remembrance Day wreath laying and services, and the annual Festival Parade.
Numerous dignitaries visited the light in the ensuing years. William Chambers, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh came in 1866 and wrote: The visual similarity between Skerryvore and Dubh Artach 20 miles (32 kilometres) to the south east, led to the NLB painting a distinctive red band round the middle section of the latter in 1890.Nicholson (1995) p. 155. The Hynish Shore Station had the advantage of proximity to the site during the construction period.
He is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the House of Lords Act of 1999. Lord Selsdon sits on the Conservative benches. The Mitchell-Thomson Baronetcy, of Polmood in the County of Peebles, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 26 September 1900 for the first Baron's father, Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1897 to 1900.
Morrison was born in 1867, daughter of a Glasgow lawyer. She married Arthur Mackie Morrison, an engineer, and they had six children including Agnes (1903-1986), who published novels and biographies as Nancy Brysson Morrison and as Christine Strathern. A source states that her husband was Lord Provost of Glasgow at the time of the 1914 collection, but the post was held in 1914 by Daniel Stevenson succeeded by Thomas Dunlop. She died in 1934.
James Lawson, Lord Lawson was a 16th-century Scottish lawyer and politician. He was both a Senator of the College of Justice from 1532 and Provost of Edinburgh in 1532. He was one of the first nine Senators of Justice, at the point of their creation in the Scottish legal system.Notes from the Old Edinburgh Club: vol 18 He was the grandson of Richard Lawson of High Riggs three times Lord Provost.
Statue of Lumsden at Cathedral Square, Glasgow In 1838 he was one of the founders of the Clydesdale Bank. He was Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1843 to 1846,James Lumsden (Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection), The Glasgow Story having previously been a Town councillor and baillie, and a commissioner of the City of Glasgow Police. He retired in 1852 and died on 16 May 1856. He was buried in the churchyard of Glasgow Cathedral.
The grave of lord provost William Law, Dean Cemetery He was born in Edinburgh the oldest son of William Law, a merchant. In 1830 he (or his father) had a store at 31 Hanover Street, living nearby at 37 George Street.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1830 From 1835 he ran a tea and coffee shop at 31 St Andrew Square. By 1840 his younger brother George joined and they created W & G Law.
His company was taken over in 1949 by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). He was elected Lord Provost in 1949, representing the Progressive Party. His most noteworthy roles, representing head of civil defence, was organising defences against nuclear war (in the post-war "duck-and cover" hysteria) and beginning the waves of slum clearance for which Glasgow became very famous.Glasgow Herald newspaper 22 April 2001 He was knighted by King George VI in 1951.
The Convenery is headed by the Deacon- Convener of the Trades of Edinburgh, who holds the distinction of being the first tradesman in Scotland, and third citizen of Edinburgh after the Lord Provost and the Lord Dean of Guild. From 1598 until 1858 the Convenery of Trades met in The Magdalen Chapel in Cowgate. Today it meets at its own headquarters, known as Ashfield, 61 Melville Street, which also contains a dedicated museum.
Sir Andrew McDonald by William Ewart Lockhart c.1891 painted in his regalia as Master of the Merchants Hall in Edinburgh, prior to his election as Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1894 to 1897 William Ewart Lockhart (14 February 1846 – 9 February 1900Catalogue of the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (PDF). Glasgow: Hedderwick, 1914. p. 208.) was a Scottish Victorian painter, born in Eaglesfield and later raised by his grandparents in Sibbaldbie and then Annan.
He was the son of John Ure, Lord Provost of Glasgow and his wife Isabella. He studied Law at the University of Glasgow he was admitted to membership of the Faculty of Advocates in 1878. He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire from 1895 to 1913. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1897. He provided as Solicitor General for Scotland from December 1905 to 1909, and as Lord Advocate from February 1909 to 1913.
In 1896 he served under the Duke of Connaught during "Volunteer Week". He served as the QERVB's Lt-Col Commandant from 1903 to 1906. As Lord Provost of Edinburgh he was also ex officio the brigade's Honorary Colonel. In 1904 he assembled a huge crowd of volunteers of the 1st Lothian Brigade (successor to the Forth Brigade) in Holyrood Park, and from 1 June 1906 he served as Colonel commanding this brigade.
He died in office as Lord Provost and was succeeded by William Calder (1767-1829). His house, Morningside Lodge was acquired by Alexander Falconer and renamed Falcon Hall, being remodelled by Thomas Hamilton in 1815. The house was last occupied by John George Bartholomew in 1909, when it was demolished. Its gatepiers were re-used at Edinburgh Zoo and its portico was re-used at Bartholomew's offices on Duncan Street in the Newington district.
The next decade saw Robert Craig's political career continue to flourish. In 1713 he was elected Baron Baillie of Canongate, and from 1714 he became Edinburgh Town Council's moderator of stent tax, annually levied on property values, and its Dean of Guild. As Dean he held one of the top three posts in the Town Council beside the Treasurer and Lord Provost. He served a full three-year term in this post until 1717.
He was the first son of Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees (1635–1713) by his first wife Agnes, daughter of the Rev. Robert Traill, and grandson of Sir James Stewart of Coltness (1608–1681), Lord Provost of Edinburgh. His father, a distinguished lawyer and an active Whig, was appointed Lord Advocate by William II and III in 1692. His sister, Anne Stewart, married William Mure of Caldwell, father of William Mure (1718–1776).
He was considerably older than Priscilla and she became stepmother to his five children. For accepting Duncan on his third proposal, Priscilla was disowned by the Society of Friends (though she ignored this for the most part, continuing to attend Quaker meetings). Duncan built a political career as an alderman, Lord Provost, and then Liberal Member of Parliament in 1865. They worked together on many campaigns, described by contemporaries as 'equal partners'.
Dunlop was the youngest son of provost Colin Dunlop of Carmyle in the parish of Old Monkland, Lanarkshire. He began his career as a merchant, and was lord provost of Glasgow in 1796. He lived at Rosebank, near Glasgow, a property which he planted and beautified. Early in the eighteenth century it came into the possession of Provost Murdoch, and through his daughter, Margaret, it fell to her son-in-law, John Dunlop.
The Conservatives also gained Colinton, the seat of the retiring Lord Provost Brechin. The seat was not contested by the Progressives. Most Progressive losses, with the exception of St. Andrews ward, were caused by incumbent Progressives stepping down and being replaced with new Conservative councillors. In Merchiston however the Conservative candidate was defeated, with the Liberals instead gaining the seat, meaning that the Liberals controlled 2 out of the 3 Merchiston ward seats.
Despite that however the parties only ran competing candidates in the Gorgie-Dalry ward. Following the election Edinburgh Corporation was composed of 34 Progressives (including the Lord Provost), 21 Labour councillors, 8 SNP councillors, 3 Conservatives, 1 Liberal, and 1 independent. Following the election the Progressive/Conservative coalition controlled the council with a majority of 6. No election was held in the Holyrood ward, where the sitting Labour councillor died the week before the election.
The Edinburgh Festival Voluntary Guides Association (EFVGA) is a non-profit group of volunteers who lead walking tours of the historic districts of Edinburgh, principally for visitors to Edinburgh's summer festivals. The organisation was set up as part of the first Edinburgh International Festival in 1947 and continues to operate under the patronage of the city's Lord Provost. The volunteer guides receive no remuneration, and no charge is made for most of their tours.
A meeting place for the tours was provided in Cannonball House, a historic town house next to the entrance to Edinburgh Castle. The tours followed the length of the Royal Mile, ending at Holyrood Palace. More volunteer guides were recruited for the 1948 Festival. In that year the group was officially constituted as the Edinburgh Festival Voluntary Guides Association, with Bowman serving as its first president and with the Lord Provost as its patron.
Ian Borthwick is an independent politician formerly a member of the Labour Party and a serving councillor on Dundee City Council. He is currently Lord Provost of the City. He is Scotland's longest-serving councillor and Dundee's oldest politician, having celebrated fifty years in local government in June 2013. He was first elected to Dundee Town Council in 1963, then joined Tayside Regional Council in 1975 and Dundee City Council in 1996.
There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Hutchison, all in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. Two creations are extant as of 2010. The Hutchison Baronetcy, of Hardiston in the County of Kinross, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 23 July 1923 for Thomas Hutchison, Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1921 to 1923. The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1972.
James was elected to local politics beginning in 1872, serving as the Liberal Councillor for the George Square Ward. From 1888 he served as Bailie and became Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1900, serving until his retirement in 1903. From May 1903, when her husband was raised to the baronetcy of Murieston, Mid-Calder, Steel became known as Lady Steel. James was a property developer and built hundreds of buildings throughout the city.
The wisdom of this against mounted troops is clearly dubious. Several bodies were found on the edge of the Meadows on the following morning. That evening (6 June) a new mob assembled outside the house of Sir James Stirling, 1st Baronet (the then Lord Provost of Edinburgh) on the south-east corer of St Andrew Square in the New Town. A City Guard sentry box near the house was set upon and smashed to pieces.
He was the oldest son of Sir Thomas Kennedy of Kirkhill and Dunure (Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1685 to 1687) and Agnes Halden. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and at Utrecht University, and was admitted as an advocate in 1698. In 1714 he married Grizel Kynynmont, daughter of Patrick Kynynmont of Kynynmont, Fife, and widow of Sir Alexander Murray, 1st Baronet, of Melgund, Forfar. They had no children.
Peter Lowrie Meldrum (1910 - October 1965) was a Scottish politician who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow. Meldrum became a trade union official, and in 1939 was elected to Glasgow City Council, representing Fairfield ward for the Labour Party. He became a business owner, but remained an active councillor. By the late 1940s, he was the convener of the council's planning committee, in which role he allocated sites for new industrial estates.
Meldrum was the secretary of the Labour group on the council from 1941 until 1958, for the last three years also serving as City Treasurer. In 1958, he instead became the chair of the Labour group, and in 1963 he was elected as Lord Provost of Glasgow. As provost, he led a successful campaign to relocate the Post Office Savings Bank to the city. Meldrum died in October 1965, still in office.
Coutts was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 10 March 1733. He was the third son of Jean Steuart and John Coutts, the former Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Among his siblings were Patrick Coutts; John Coutts; Thomas Coutts and Steuart Coutts, and one sister, Margaret Coutts. His maternal grandfather was Sir John Steuart, 2nd Baronet of Allanbank (son of Sir Robert Steuart, 1st Baronet and Jean Gilmour, a daughter of Sir John Gilmour).
The grave of David Steuart, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, St Cuthberts Churchyard He was born on 20 September 1747 the youngest son of John Steuart of Dalguise (1689-1776). He was probably born at Dalguise House, north of Dunkeld in Perthshire. His mother was John's second wife, Margaret Findlay He came to Edinburgh probably around 1760. He went into partnership with Robert Allan Esq around 1770 creating the banking firm of Allan & Steuart.
From 1802 to 1809 Sibbald developed this area as what is now known as the Second New Town, aided by Robert Reid who oversaw elevational design.Cassells Old and New Edinburgh One of his most notable acts as Lord Provost was commissioning John Ainslie to map Edinburgh. He was portrayed with Bailie John Lothian by John Kay around 1781. He broke his partnership with Robert Allan and set up as a merchant in Leith.
After the elections he was re-elected Leader of an enlarged SNP group and he again became Deputy Leader of the City of Edinburgh Council as the Scottish Labour Party and the SNP formed a grand-coalition after the election. In March 2015 he stood down as leader of the SNP group. In May 2015 he became the Deputy Lord Provost. In September 2016 he announced that he would not seek re-election to the council in 2017.
Farrell was a partner in the Shaughnessy law firm that had long- standing connections with Celtic, and was invited to become a director in 1964. McGinn had set up The Celtic View in the 1960s and later became the club's commercial manager. He was given a seat on the board and became Chairman in 1986. In May 1990 the former Lord Provost of Glasgow, Michael Kelly, and property developer Brian Dempsey were invited to join the Celtic board.
After a vote by the council in February 2018, Lord Provost of Edinburgh , The Right Honorable Frank Ross presented The Freedom of the City of Edinburgh to the Squadron at the City Chambers on Tuesday 3 July 2018.Freedom of Edinburgh for RAF squadron which shot down first Luftwaffe bomber of Second World War. The Parade was followed by a private reception in the Palace of HolyroodHouse where the Squadron was hosted by its HAC, HM Queen Elizabeth.
Engraving from the 1830s The Town's Hospital was a poorhouse in Glasgow, Scotland, founded in 1731. It occupied a site at the Old Green on Great Clyde Street, at the junction of present-day Ropework Lane. The hospital was managed by the Lord Provost and 48 directors, 12 of whom were elected by the town council. Of the remainder, 12 represented the Church of Scotland's General Session, 12 the merchant's guild and 12 the producer's guild.
Substantial additions were made to the house in 1871 by Alexander Ross. Electric lighting was first installed in 1883, drawing power from a dynamo turned by water from the River Divie. The interior plasterwork was extensively remodelled between 1928 and 1932 under the direction of John Wittet CBE, president of the Inverness Architectural Association and Lord Provost of Elgin. Renovation work by Ronald Phillips and Partners, sensitive to the original design, removed substantial parts of Ross's addition in 1964.
MacSween started to produce what was described as a vegetarian haggis in 1984, after a request from the Burns Supper at the Scottish Poetry Library. MacSween married Kate Mackay, the daughter of a former Lord Provost of Edinburgh, in 1964. His wife and his four children survived him at this death, and MacSween haggis continued to be produced,MacSweens Web site, accessed 14 August 2017 sold under both the MacSween name and as supermarkets' own brands.
The Provost of Montrose was the head of the Montrose burgh council in Scotland. Provosts were elected by the council and served not only as the chairman of that body, but as a figurehead for the entire town. They were equivalent in many ways to the institution of mayor. Each of the 32 Scottish local authorities elects a convener or provost, but it is only the four main cities, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee that have a Lord Provost.
The body began as the Scottish Development Agency in 1975. The first Chairman of the SDA was Sir William Gray former Lord Provost of Glasgow.Glasgow Herald, obituary of Sir William Gray 11 July 2000 Scottish Enterprise was created on 1 April 1991 under the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990. That act dissolved the Scottish Development Agency [SDA], created in 1975 and the Highlands and Islands Development Board forming Scottish Enterprise alongside the Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Shaw was the son of Sir Archibald McInnes Shaw, the Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1908 to 1911. He was educated at St Ninian's School, Moffat and then at Charterhouse. He joined the Royal Scots Fusiliers when World War I broke out in 1914, and was twice mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). After the war he continued to serve in the Territorial Army, and was given the brevet rank of Colonel in 1928.
Sir Robert Murray of Cameron (died 1672) was a Scottish politician. He was the second son of James Murray (died 1649), of Deuchar in Selkirkshire, who was a younger son (the second son to be called James) of Patrick Murray of Philiphaugh. Robert Murray served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and represented the city in the Parliament of Scotland from 1661 to 1663. His eldest son Alexander Murray of Melgund was the father of Sir Alexander Murray, 1st Baronet.
Glasgow Post Office Directory 1869. In 1879, he joined the Glasgow town council representing the 14th ward. In 1891 (while a city Bailie) he attended a large banquet combining a wide range of famous parties together including Sir Henry Irving and his then- secretary Bram Stoker, Buffalo Bill Cody, and Harry Furniss. His most important contributions as Lord Provost were the building of the People's Palace and laying the foundation of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men from Fife, M F Conolly He worked for the family firm of R. Hastie & Co, based first at Somerville PlaceGlasgow Post Office Directory 1830 and later at 13 John Street in Glasgow. The company traded with America and the East Indies. In 1837 he joined Glasgow town council as a councillor. At the time of his being Lord Provost in 1846 he lived at 212 Bath Street in the Glasgow city centre.
Bilslands bread all over Scotland. He later acquired other firms including Gray and Dunn biscuit manufacturers in 1912. William later became Lord Provost of Glasgow and was created a baronet in 1907. Sir Robert Muir, FRS, FRSE, FRCP, FRCPE, RFPSG (5 July 1864 – 30 March 1959) was a Scottish physician and pathologist who carried out pioneering work in immunology, and was one of the leading figures in medical research in Glasgow in the early 20th century.
Hyacinth was laid down by London and Glasgow Shipbuilding Company at their shipyard in Govan, Scotland on 27 January 1897 and launched on 27 October 1898, when she was christened by Mrs. Richmond, wife of David Richmond, Lord Provost of Glasgow. She was completed on 7 December 1899. She served with the Channel Fleet under Captain Douglas Gamble, and took part in the fleet review held at Spithead on 16 August 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII.
By this time Howison was Moderator of the Presbytery of Glasgow which was at that time meeting in the Cathedral. Howison demonstrated his opposition to the entry of the new archbishop by climbing into the pulpit and beginning to preach before the archbishop arrived. The archbishop arrived to claim the pulpit, accompanied by the Lord Provost of Glasgow Sir Mathew Stewart of Minto - one of Howison’s own Cambuslang Parishioners - and other leading citizens. There was a stand-off.
List of Lords Provost in Edinburgh City Chambers The Right Honourable Lord Provost of Edinburgh is the convener of the City of Edinburgh local authority. They are elected by the city council and serves not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead for the entire city. They are ex officio the Lord- Lieutenant of Edinburgh. They are equivalent in many ways to the institution of Mayor that exists in many other countries.
This was detached from the brigade the following year and became independent as 9th (Highlanders) Volunteer Battalion, Royal Scots. In 1905, Sir Robert Cranston, as one of the lieutenant-colonels of the brigade (as well as its Honorary Colonel, ex officio, as Lord Provost of Edinburgh), participated in meetings with H. O. Arnold-Forster, Secretary of State for War, over the future of the Volunteer Force.Beckett, p. 245. George Watson's Boys' College formed an affiliated cadet corps in 1905.
Falconer began his civic career in 1932 with his election to the Town Council in Edinburgh. In 1935 he was elected Magistrate of the body, becoming its Treasurer in 1940. In 1938 he lost by one vote in an election to become the Progressive Party's candidate for Lord Provost of Edinburgh. During World War II he served as the Chief Air Raid Warden for Edinburgh, with the responsibility for raising the city's Civil Defence plans to war time efficiency.
In 1777 Craig was then asked to plan the refurbishment of the New Church St Giles' Cathedral, and entered the competition to plan Leith Ballast Quay. He was initially chosen to build the quay but was replaced by mason, William Jamieson, son of his former master in the incorporation of wrights and masons. He also in this year planned the funerary monument for Lord Provost Alexander Kincaid intended. The New Church work kept Craig busy from 1780 and 1781.
In 1603 Sir Alexander Lauder sold it to John Fairlie of the family of Braid. Fairlie carried out extensive work to the original building, which is incorporated in the present mansion. His great-grandson, William Fairlie of Brounsfield, was still in possession after the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. He sold Brounisfield to George Warrender of Lochend - then Baillie (councillor) and afterwards Lord Provost of Edinburgh - in July 1695, and that family were still in possession in 1900.
He was elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1851. McLaren was a Liberal and supported the anti–Corn Law campaign of John Bright, the opening of the Meadows to the public, and the establishment of the Industrial Museum (now the National Museum of Scotland). McLaren was also a governor of the Heriot Free School trust. In 1865 he was elected one of Edinburgh’s two Members of Parliament, a position he held until he retired 16 years later.
Susan Baird (26 May 1940 – 24 January 2009) was the Labour Party Councillor for the Braidfauld ward of the City of Glasgow, Scotland. She served as the second female Lord Provost of the City from 1988 to 1992. She was appointed CBE in the 1991 New Year Honours. Baird was the recipient of the 1991 St Mungo Prize, awarded to the individual who has done most in the previous three years to improve and promote the city of Glasgow.
List of Lords Provost in Edinburgh City Chambers The Right Honourable Lord Provost of Edinburgh is the convener of the City of Edinburgh local authority. They are elected by the city council and serve not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead for the entire city. They are also ex officio the Lord-Lieutenant of Edinburgh. They are equivalent in many ways to the institution of Mayor that exists in many other countries.
23–24 Chiesley made no attempt to escape and confessed at his trial, held before the Lord Provost the next day. Two days later he was taken from the Tolbooth to the Mercat Cross on the High Street. His right hand was cut off before he was hanged, and the pistol he had used for the murder was placed round his neck.Macaulay (2009) The Prisoner of St Kilda: The true story of the unfortunate Lady Grange.
This was a time of great change as sailing ships were replaced by steamships. Mr. Henderson entered Aberdeen Town Council in 1885, and in November 1886 was elected Lord Provost in succession to James Matthews, serving until 1889. While on the council, he was instrumental in causing the rebuilding of the Royal Infirmary to commemorate Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1887, and the erection of the Public Library buildings on Rosemount Viaduct. Politically, he was a Liberal.
The Kirk at Pilrig: Stuart W. Sime On 7 August 1860 he oversaw, as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Great Review for Queen Victoria and the Royal Family, which involved over 20,000 persons. His home for most of his life was 21 Moray PlaceEdinburgh and Leith Post Office directory 1885-6 in the fashionable West End. He died at Melville House in Fife on 8 August 1885. He is buried in Dean Cemetery in the west of Edinburgh.
Lally was involved in local government politics from 1966 to 1999. Although he was suspended from Labour's candidates list in 1977 in a housing allocation row, he returned to the City Chambers in 1980. He was council leader of Glasgow City District Council in the early 1990s and became Lord Provost of the new City Council in 1995, serving until 1999. During this time he did much to promote Glasgow on the national and international stage.
Glasgow Post Office Directories 1799 He was first made Lord Provost in 1798, in succession to James McDowall. After two years in office he lost to rival, John Hamilton but returned to office two years later in 1802. On 2 March 1803 he laid the foundation of the new theatre on Queen Street in Glasgow along with the architect David Hamilton.The Picture of Glasgow, by Robert Chapman By 1810 he was living permanently at 8 St Enoch Square.
Sir Patrick Warrender of Lochend, 3rd Baronet (7 March 1731 – 14 June 1799) was a Scottish soldier and politician. Bruntsfield House, Edinburgh - the Warrenders' Edinburgh house He was a younger, but oldest surviving, son of Sir John Warrender, 2nd Baronet and his wife Henrietta Johnston, daughter of Sir Patrick Johnston MP, Lord Provost of Edinburgh. In 1772, he succeeded his father as baronet. Warrender served with the Royal Horse Guards and fought in the Battle of Minden in 1759.
He served as both a Councillor (1778) and Bailie (1779) in Edinburgh prior to becoming Lord Provost in 1780. He was succeeded in 1782 by John Grieve. In 1790 he commissioned William Sibbald to create a plane for a large swathe of land owned by Stewart between Gabriels Road and Lord Moray's estate to the west. He persuaded the Council to purchase the land east of Gabrials Road (centred on Bellevue Lodge) to enlarge the proposal.
McLintock arrests Burke and Ginny, and Hare and Lucky, while both couples are having sex. In prison, Burke is repentant, but Hare tells him not to confess or all of them, including the women, will be hanged. Meanwhile, the Solicitor General and the Lord Provost want to keep the scandal out of the papers, as the news would ruin the reputation of Edinburgh's medical schools and the money they generate. They bribe McLintock into a deal by making him a colonel.
In 1824, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Andrew Coventry. In 1825, he fell out with fellow Edinburgh doctor James Crawford Gregory as to whether or not midwifery should be a compulsory component of the University course. He bypassed the Senate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on this issue and received consent directly from the Lord Provost, William Trotter. When Gregory next met him he beat him ferociously with his cane.
When William Lenox-Conyngham died in 1858, the estate passed to his eldest son Lt. Col. Sir William Fitzwilliam Lenox-Conyngham who had married Laura Arbuthnot, daughter of George Arbuthnot of ElderslieArbuthnot Family of Elderslie (Founder of the Indian Bank, Arbuthnot & Co) in 1856. Her father's elder brother was Sir William Arbuthnot 1st Baronet, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Lord Lieutenant of Edinburgh. Sir William Lenox-Conyngham was highly involved in military matters and was knighted (KCB) by Queen Victoria in 1881.
He married twice: #21 January 1669, at the Tron Kirk, Edinburgh, Janet (1652-1686), daughter of Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, 1st Baronet, Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Senator of the College of Justice, (d. 1688), by his wife Janet née Craw. They had six sons (of whom Andrew Lauder, in Edinburgh, and David Lauder of Huntlywood, Berwickshire, were Advocates) and four daughters. #26 March 1687, at Edinburgh, Marion, daughter of the Reverend John Anderson, of Balram, Minister of Dysart.
He was born at Carlowrie House on 16 December 1866, the son of Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie and his wife, Mary Jemima Tait. His younger brother was the eminent physician Sir Robert Hutchison, independently knighted for his medical contributions. He succeeded John William Chesser as Lord Provost in 1921 and was succeeded in turn by William Lowrie Sleigh in 1923. His Edinburgh address was 28 Royal Terrace on Calton Hill but he also inherited the family home of Carlowrie Castle near Kirkliston.
Sir James Lumsden (Mitchell Library, The Bailie), The Glasgow Story He was also chairman of the Glasgow and South Western Railway and the Clyde Navigation Trust. He was the final chairman of the Clyde Shipping Company before it was sold in 1857.A Liberal politician, he joined the Glasgow town Council in 1860, serving as Lord Provost from 1866 to 1869. He was knighted in 1868 in a ceremony linked to the laying of the foundation of the new university buildings at Gilmorehill.
He did an enormous amount of work both at his office and after hours at home, and made many journeys to South Africa, Canada, the Far East, the United States, India and West Africa. On his way home from West Africa he fell ill of malaria in January and died in hospital in England on 8 February 1937. In 1901 he married Etheldred Spittal, daughter of the Rev. John Spittal, and granddaughter of Sir James Spittal, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
The Council Chamber in Leith which ceased to be an autonomous burgh in 1920 The chief magistrate or convener of a burgh, equivalent to a mayor, was called a provost. Many different titles were in use until the Town Councils (Scotland) Act 1900 standardised the term as "provost", except in cities with a lord provost. Since 1975 local authorities have been free to choose the title of their convener and provosts are appointed to chair a number of area and community councils.
John Monro's vision of the new Edinburgh medical school was based on the Leiden model of a medical faculty within a university and with an associated teaching hospital. In 1721 Alexander Monro circulated a pamphlet setting out the case for this hospital. Lord Provost George Drummond helped secure financial backing from local surgeons, physicians, wealthy citizens and Church of Scotland parishes. Monro and the committee of donors established this hospital in August 1729 in a house in Robertson's Close, rented from the university.
Meanwhile, due to the thin harvest, bread prices go up and a riot starts in the city. Beka, Goodwin and Tunstall get caught up in the fight, and Tunstall gets both of his legs broken. After the riot, Lord Gershom, the Lord Provost, sends Beka, Goodwin and Achoo to Port Caynn to further investigate the coles while Tunstall recovers. Pounce, for once, cannot go with her as he is actually a constellation and he must deal with some troublesome stars.
Adamson was killed at the Battle of Pinkie on 10 September 1547. The Adamson family constructed, or reconstructed, Craigcrook Castle, and owned it until 1659, when it was sold to John Mein, a merchant in Edinburgh. Ten years later it became the home of Sir John Hall of Dunglass, who later was the Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1689. Hall sold the property in 1682 to Walter Pringle, advocate, who in turn sold it, in 1689, to John Strachan, Writer to the Signet.
The newspaper was founded by an Edinburgh-born printer called John Mennons in January 1783 as a weekly publication called the Glasgow Advertiser. Mennons' first edition had a global scoop: news of the treaties of Versailles, reached Mennons via the Lord Provost of Glasgow just as he was putting the paper together. War had ended with the American colonies, he revealed. The Herald, therefore, is as old as the United States of America, give or take an hour or two.
Campbell was the youngest son of Colonel Dougald Campbell of Ballimore (1720-1764). His mother Christian Lamont Drummond (1734-1810) was the daughter of George Drummond, several times Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Her brother (Duncan Campbell's uncle) was Alexander Drummond, consul at Aleppo, and the widow of David Campbell of Dunloskin. He was educated at Glasgow University. Campbell was a captain in the 1st Foot (Royal Scots) in 1780, colonel commandant of the 98th Foot in 1794, and full colonel in 1796.
In 1919 he married Agnes Buchan, and their son was born the same year. He lived in Juniper Green.Edinburgh's Darkside Blog (archived) Merrilees became known in his community for rescuing a total of 21 people from drowning,Edinburgh's Darkside Blog (archived) and after receiving an award, he came to the attention of Sir Thomas Hutchison, Bt. the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Hutchison asked him what he wanted to do with his life; Merrilees replied that he wanted to become a police officer.
The Lord Provost of Aberdeen is the convener of the Aberdeen City local authority in Scotland. They are elected by the city council and serve not only as the chair of that body, but as a figurehead for the entire city. They are equivalent in many ways to the institution of Mayor that exists in many other countries. According to Munro in Aberdeen up to the end of the sixteenth century, the provost was elected on the first Monday after Michaelmas.
Paxton's family originated from Auchencrow near to Paxton, Berwickshire. He was the son of John Paxton, chief clerk to Scottish wine merchant Archibald Stewart, who had become Lord Provost of Edinburgh. In 1745, when Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie", marched down from Caledonian with his army of Highlanders to make his bid for the throne, Stewart feebly opposed him. Arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London from where, after six weeks, he was released on a bail of £15,000.
In 1823, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society for his chemical discoveries. In 1828, he became a partner with James Beaumont Neilson in a firm to exploit the latter's patent for the hot blast blowing of blast furnaces, which saved considerably on their fuel consumption. Charles died in 1843 and was buried in the Glasgow Cathedral graveyard. He is buried with his parents in the ground of his great grandfather, John Anderson of Douhill, Lord Provost of Glasgow.
In 1296, it is recorded that Sarra of the Glen swore allegiance to King Edward I of England. The estate was later split up, and comprised the two estates of Easter Glen and Wester Glen by the 18th century. It was reunited under the ownership of Edinburgh banker Alexander Allan in 1796, who purchased Easter Glen in that year for £10,500. His son William Allan, Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1829–1831, commissioned William Henry Playfair to extend the existing farmhouse.
The foundation stone for the new baths and wash-house was laid on 3 July 1914 by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson. An important function of the building in the early years was to provide clothes- washing facilities for local people whose tenement homes typically had no such facilities. Most homes in the area also lacked bathing facilities. Local rumour has it that the baths were used as a temporary mortuary for casualties from bombing during World War II.Timeline.
These now underground closes were still accessible but were closed for public access for many years until reopened as 'The Real Mary King's Close'. The Exchange was opened by Lord Provost George Drummond in 1760. The exchange had a coffee shop and shops including a millinery operated by Sibilla Hutton. The Exchange never proved popular with the merchants, for whom it was built, who persisted in meeting at the Mercat Cross or, rather, where it stood before it was removed in 1756.
During his mayorship, he signed agreements of 'city sisterhood' with four cities that include Isfahan in 2004 and Mashhad in 2006, both cities of Iran. In 2005, Amer Mahmood stated that he was making efforts to declare Glasgow as a twin city of Lahore. Later on 6 May 2006, the mayor reported that Glasgow City Council would announce Lahore as sister city soon. Then on 14 September 2006, he signed the twin city memorandum with Glasgow's Lord Provost Liz Cameron in Glasgow.
Biggar in 1922 John McLaren Biggar (1874 – 8 August 1943) was a Scottish politician. Born in Glasgow, Biggar was educated at the Glasgow City Public School before becoming an accountant.Dictionary of Scottish Architects, "John McLaren Biggar" In time, he founded his own accountancy firm, Biggar, May and Forsyth."Death of Glasgow's Lord Provost", Glasgow Herald, 9 August 1943 He became active in public life in the 1900s, initially through membership of the New Kilpatrick School Board, then moved to the Glasgow School Board.
Biggar was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1909, the eldest daughter of Florence and Hugh Biggar, a founding member of the Independent Labour Party. She was the niece of John Biggar, Lord Provost of Glasgow between 1941 and 1943. As a child she fell victim to a number of accidents including two injuries to her spine, which affected her height. Biggar enrolled at the Glasgow School of Art in 1925, at the age of 16, to study textile design, and graduated in 1929.
View of the bridge from the west The King George VI Bridge is a bridge over the River Dee in Aberdeen, Scotland. Plaque on West side of the bridge The foundation stone of the bridge was laid by the Lord Provost Edward W. Watt on 15 September 1938. It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth in the presence of King George VI on 10 March 1941. Today the bridge carries the Great Southern Road (B9077) into Aberdeen from the south.
The grave of Sir David Mason, Glasgow Necropolis Mason was born in Tradeston, Glasgow, the son of George Johnston Mason and Agnes Allison.Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 He worked for his father's company, G. J. Mason & Co of 48 Queen Street in Glasgow, a company making mantles (cloaks) and skirts.Glasgow Post Office Directory 1870 In 1926, he succeeded Matthew Walker Montgomery as Lord Provost of Glasgow.List of Lord Provosts of Glasgow and was knighted in the 1928 New Year Honours.
In the 1840s, the Ben Line was in the North Atlantic trade, taking Aloa coal to Canada and returning with timber. Mitchell's more famous grandsons include the British civil servant in India John Ontario Miller (1857–1843), the founder of the Luscar Coal Company Colonel Alexander Mitchell (1871–1934), Sir Mitchell Mitchell- Thomson (1846–1918) a Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Auditor-General of Tasmania Duncan Charles Mitchell (1859–1925) and the noted Scottish Humanities scholar William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939).
DeQuincey Cottage was so named as the poet of the same name had lived there at some time. I well recall meeting many of the great and the good who came to have their portraits painted, in particular Herbie Brechin, Lord Provost, who had a light blue Jaguar XJ6 that thrilled us boys and intrigued with its twin fuel tanks! And Chief Constable Willie Merrilees who was chauffeur driven by a police driver. Sir John Clerk of Penicuik had a family portrait painted by Raeburn.
Each authority elects a Convener or Provost to chair meetings of the authority's council and act as a figurehead for the area. The four main cities of Scotland, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee have a Lord Provost who is also, ex officio, Lord Lieutenant for that city. There are in total 32 councils, the largest being the Glasgow City Council with more than 600,000 inhabitants, the smallest, Orkney Islands Council, with fewer than 20,000 people. See Subdivisions of Scotland for a list of the council areas.
In 1949 he became a member of Perth Local Authority a position he held until 1972. Thomson was appointed a justice of the peace serving Perth and Kinross in 1955. From 1966 to 1972 he served as the Lord Provost of Perth, a Deputy Lieutenant and appointed an honorary sheriff. In 1972 he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. From 1972 to 1976 Thomson was a director of the Scottish Transport Group and between 1973 and 1981 a director of Scottish Opera.
The election for the parliament of 1831 was entirely in the hands of the town council, and Gairdner, a reformer, seconded the nomination of Francis Jeffrey, Lord Advocate. The majority of the council, however, disregarded a petition presented to them and elected Robert Adam Dundas. They departed through back streets, while a mob attacked the Lord Provost and threatened to throw him over the North Bridge. In the 1830s he was living in the centre of the Edinburgh's New Town at 18 Hill Street.
The Lord Provost of Glasgow, Hugh Montgomerie of Busbie, purchased the estate from the fourth baronet; taking possession in 1731 and inheriting the title as 6th baronet and eleventh laird. In 1687 he married Lilias Gemmel, daughter of Peter Gemmel, merchant in Glasgow and Christian Boyd his wife. Hugh was one of the commissioners appointed to negotiate the union with England, serving as a member of Scotland's last parliament. He was appointed to the first parliament of the United Kingdom as the representative for Glasgow.
His son was the first Baronet of the 1873 creation (see below). The Kinloch Baronetcy, of Gilmerton in the County of Haddington, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 16 September 1686 for Francis Kinloch, Lord Provost of Edinburgh. His eldest son and successor, Sir Francis Kinloch, 2nd Baronet, married Mary, second daughter of General David Leslie, Lord Newark. The eleventh Baronet was a Brigadier- General in the British Army and served in the Second Boer War and the First World War.
He also completed murals at the John Brown & Company shipyard and at the Scottish Brewers premises in Glasgow. When Crawford's depiction of wartime casualties, Tribute to Clydebank (The Stretcher Bearers) was shown at the Royal Academy in 1942 it was declared 'picture of the year' and he considered it his best work. Also during World War Two, Crawford received a short-term commission from the War Artists' Advisory Committee for three portraits. The first, in May 1941, was for a portrait of the Lord Provost of Glasgow.
He met with Sir Thomas Dunlop the Lord Provost of Glasgow, who was enthusiastic. The next stage was to find a location for the hospital in the west of Scotland. After reviewing several sites it was decided that Erskine would be the location. Thomas Aikman, the owner of Erskine House, which is a mansion on the banks of the River Clyde, offered free use of his mansion and gardens for the period of the war and for 12 years after it was declared over.
The grave of John Manderston, Greyfriars Kitkyard He was born in Edinburgh in the late 18th century, the son of William Manderson, a brewer in the Canongate. In 1800 he is listed as a druggist with a shop at 21 Rose Street in Edinburgh's First New town just behind Princes Street with his house opposite his shop.Edinburgh Post Office directory 1800 He 1819 he succeeded Kincaid Mackenzie as Lord Provost of Edinburgh. He then moved house to 1 Abercromby Place in Edinburgh's Second New Town.
Smudge was used as a mascot for several campaigns including 'Save the Glasgow Vet School' (1989), 'Paws Off Glasgow Green' (1990). In 1987, Smudge disappeared for a number of weeks, but after many appeals (including one by the Lord Provost of Glasgow) she was recovered. Smudge left the People's Palace in 1990 with the departure of Elspeth King, the museum's curator. When Elspeth became director of Stirling's Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Smudge was called on again to deal with a rodent problem.
It is unlikely that Donaldson is the same Alexander Donaldson mentioned as a founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh as that gentleman is described as a Professor of Oriental Languages at Edinburgh University. He retired in 1789 and bought Broughton Hall, located a mile to the northeast of central Edinburgh, which had been the residence of Archibald Stewart, Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1745). He died at Broughton Hall in 1794, leaving an estate valued at £100,000. He is buried in Greyfriars Churchyard.
Gordon was readmitted to the council from 1714 to 1715, when the Jacobites took over the council during the rising of 1715, and served again from April 1716 to 1719. From 1717 to 1718, he was once more Lord Provost, and took part in efforts to purge episcopalian and Jacobite elements from the University of Aberdeen. He was made an honorary burgess of Old Aberdeen upon his retirement from the council. Gordon died on 24 August 1730, aged 75, and was buried in St. Nicholas’ church, Aberdeen.
There was no offer for the whole estate, and the Liberal Party politician Archibald Cameron Corbett arranged to purchase the "Loch Goil & Loch Long Section". Corbett was the Member of Parliament for Glasgow Tradeston at the time, and he made the purchase with the aim of giving it to the city of Glasgow. In July 1905, Corbett sent a letter to the Lord Provost of Glasgow at the time, Sir John Ure Primrose, informing him of the purchase. A copy of Corbett's letter is shown below.
McManus was the first person to be posthumously awarded the Lord Provost of Glasgow's Award for Performing Arts. McManus' final Taggart episode was "Prayer for the Dead" (1995). McManus was the first Taggart cast member to die, at 59, only to be followed by Iain Anders (Jack McVitie) who died three years later in 1997, aged 64, from a heart attack. After the death of McManus in 1994, his character was given an on-air funeral in the final episode of the series' 11th season, "Black Orchid".
He was born in 1655 the son of John Aird (and so is often referred to as "John Aird Junior"). In 1692 he appears as a Bailie in Glasgow Town Council and from 1695 he appears as Dean of Guild in Glasgow Town Council. He served this role five times in total up to 1721.The Picture of Glasgow or Strangers Guide by Robert Chapman 1806 He served as Lord Provost five times: 1705–1707, 1709–1711, 1713–1715, 1717–1719 and 1721–1723.
Saggar died of an intracerebral haemorrhage on 14 November 1954 at the Royal Infirmary, Dundee. The Lord Provost of Dundee, William Hughes, paid tribute to him after his death, saying: "He was a man of compassion for everyone in need ... he came to Dundee from halfway across the world but no son of Dundee had greater love for its people or worked harder in their interest. Dundee is much poorer by his passing." Twenty years after his death, the Dundee Corporation named Saggar Street after him.
He was an Independent Labour Party councillor for the Shettleston and Tollcross ward on the Glasgow Corporation from 1932 to 1947. He joined the Labour Party in 1947, and was re-elected as councillor for Shettleston and Tollcross in 1949. Galpern served as convener of the education committee (1954-1958), before being appointed in 1958 as leader of the Labour group on Glasgow Corporation and leader of the city's administration. He served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1958 to 1960 (the first Jewish provost in Scotland).
As Lord Provost, he was instrumental in the city's adoption of the Glasgow's miles better campaign and slogan, which is credited with an important role in Glasgow's cultural renaissance during the 1980s. A member of one of the families that had controlled Celtic F.C. since its foundation, he sat on the club's board of directors until 1994, when the club reached the verge of bankruptcy and the much-criticised old regime was ousted by Fergus McCann's takeover. Dr Kelly is now a writer and PR consultant.
The episode celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Traverse Theatre. On Monday 24 March 2014, Demarco received an engraved Loving Cup from Edinburgh City Council presented by the Lord Provost in the City Chambers. At the ceremony, Ron Butlin, the Edinburgh Makar, recited a poem commissioned especially for the occasion. An impression of Demarco's handprints has been immortalised on a flagstone in the City Chambers quadrangle alongside previous Edinburgh Award recipients Ian Rankin, JK Rowling, George Kerr, Sir Chris Hoy, Professor Peter Higgs and Elizabeth Blackadder.
Sir Andrew Hunter Arbuthnot Murray (19 December 1903 - 21 March 1977) was Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Scotland between 1947 and 1951, Lord Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh, and a Justice of the Peace. The son of Alfred Alexander Arbuthnot Murray and Bethany née Moir, Murray was educated Daniel Stewart's College and George Heriot's School. He was elected a City Councillor of Edinburgh in 1929, and served as Hon. City Treasurer 1943–46. He was President of the Scottish Liberal Party Organisation 1961–65.
Alistair Darling was born in London the son of a civil engineer, Thomas, and his wife, Anna MacLean. He is the great-nephew of Sir William Darling, a Conservative/Unionist Member of Parliament for Edinburgh South (1945–1957) who had served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh during the Second World War. He was educated at Chinthurst School, in Tadworth, Surrey, then in Kirkcaldy, and at the private Loretto School, in Musselburgh. He attended the University of Aberdeen, from where he graduated as a Bachelor of Laws (LLB).
However the term bailie is still used as an honorary title by Glasgow City Council for a number of senior councilors who can deputise for the Lord Provost. The Scottish equivalent of a sheriff's bailiff or high bailiff is the sheriff officer (for the sheriff court) or the messenger-at-arms (for the court of session). These positions were to be abolished by §60 of the Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007, and replaced with the office of judicial officer under §57(1) of that enactment.
Pilcher managed the electrification of Edinburgh's trams in 1922/3. At the luncheon held on 15 January 1929 to mark his departure from Edinburgh and in response to Lord Provost Sir Alexander Stevenson's remarks, he said that "they deliberately planned the changeover so as not to affect public opinion. They were nervous of the effect of the hoardings and a half-finished job." He was followed by FA Fitzpayne MIEE, who remained in post until 1934 when Robert McLeod M Inst T took over.
Work began on the St. Nicholas centre on 26 October 1983, when the foundation stone was laid by the then Lord Provost of the city, Alexander C Collie. During construction, two coin hoards were uncovered, amassing around 7000 coins valued at the time at £35,000. The centre was officially opened on 3 October 1985 by Lord Provost Henry Rae with total retail space covering . The first store, Miss Selfridge, opened its doors three months earlier on 4 July 1985. The Bon Accord centre opened five years later in 1990. In 2003, British Land purchased the entirety of the St. Nicholas centre for £31 million, previously 40% owned by BL Universal (a joint venture between British Land and GUS plc.) with the remaining 60% held by a pension scheme. On 18 March 2004, British Land and Land Securities (owner of the Bon Accord centre) announced they had formed a 50/50 joint venture, the "Scottish Retail Property Limited Partnership", bringing together the two centres under one management. Shortly after, the newly unified centre started using the dual-branded name Bon Accord St. Nicholas Shopping Centre.
Wilson was Executive Vice-Chairman in 1972–1973, and while Executive Vice-Chairman he had a responsibility for oil. Wilson stood as the SNP parliamentary candidate at the Dundee East by-election in March 1973, where he was narrowly defeated by Labour's George Machin. He did however clearly out-poll Lord Provost of Dundee, William Fitzgerald, standing as Conservative who was thought to have had a good chance of winning the seat. Machin was a native of Sheffield and some thought Labour made a mistake by selecting an Englishman for a Scottish seat.
The title became extinct on the death of the second Baronet in 1979. The Stewart Baronetcy, of Balgownie in Bearsden in the County of Dumbarton, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 16 December 1920 for James Watson Stewart. He was a member of the Glasgow Corporation from 1904 to 1920 and Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1917 to 1920. The Stewart Baronetcy, of Stewartby in the County of Bedford, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 4 March 1937 for the businessman Malcolm Stewart.
The foundation stone for an extension along Broad Street was laid by the Lord Provost, Robert Lennox, on 17 November 1975. The extension which was designed by the city architects, I. A. Ferguson and T. C. Watson, was built by Taylor Woodrow Construction. The complex then remained the Aberdeen District Council headquarters until the abolition of the Grampian Region led to the formation of Aberdeen City Council in April 1996. The whole complex was extensively refurbished at a cost of £4 million between August 2014 and March 2017.
After a tour on the continent, the Grants visited Scotland arriving at Edinburgh on August 31. Grant, who had Scottish ancestry on both sides of his family, was the first US president to visit Scotland. He was received by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, becoming his guest while visiting Scotland. Grant visited the memorial of the Prince Consort, the commercial Bank of Edinburgh, its public gardens and library and the site of Sir Walter Scott's birthplace, a favorite poet of Grant who had read his poems to Julia while they were courting.
The estate including the old castle were bought in the late 17th century by Sir Thomas Kennedy of Kirkhill, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and occupied by his son Thomas Kennedy of Dunure. Over the years, the old castle has also been known as Dalqhrin, Dahuharra Castle, Old Place of Dalwharn, Dolquharran. Kennedy of Kirkhill also bought Dunure Castle and its estate. Thomas Kennedy of Dunure was the husband of Robert Adam's sister, and Adam designed a new castle for him as a country mansion, during around 1785 to 1790.
Pitreavie Castle is thought to have been built by Sir Henry Wardlaw, the 1st Baronet of Pitreavie, who bought the Pitreavie estate in 1608, with the castle believed to have existed by 1614. It was sold to Archibald Primrose, 1st Earl of Rosebery, in 1703, and then to Sir Robert Blackwood, Lord Dean of Guild, and later Lord Provost, of Edinburgh, in 1711. It remained in the Blackwood family for 170 years, but was unoccupied for almost a century. The castle was bought by Henry Beveridge, a wealthy mill owner, in 1884.
View of Chambers Street showing the statue of William Chambers of Glenormiston, after whom the street was named. The vehicles in the photograph are parked in the centre of the street in a manner more commonly seen in Edinburgh's New Town.Chambers Street is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the southern extremity of the Old Town. The street is named after William Chambers of Glenormiston, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh who was the main proponent of the Edinburgh Improvement Act (1867) which led to its creation in 1870.
The SNP replaced Labour as the biggest party; although without a majority it ended Labour's 37-year-long control of the council. The Conservatives increased its number of councillors from 1 to 8, their highest since 1984, while the Scottish Green Party also made a couple of gains to reach their highest ever level in Glasgow. This council is the first without any Liberal representation since 1974. The SNP took control of the council as a minority administration with SNP members filling the positions of council leader, depute council leader, and Lord Provost.
In July 1947, Davidson was appointed an Officer of the Venerable Order of St John (OStJ). In June 1950, he was promoted to Chaplain of the Venerable Order of St John (ChStJ). On 30 July 1962, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant (DL) to the Lord Provost of Glasgow. In April 1969, he was appointed an Extra-Chaplain in Scotland to Queen Elizabeth II. Davidson was the recipient of the 1961 St Mungo Prize, awarded to the individual who has done most in the previous three years to improve and promote the city of Glasgow.
It still survives, not far from Haddington. In June 1564 he defended the city magistrates in a prosecution against them by the Crown (possibly relating to election of the Lord Provost). In May 1569 he defended the Earl of Bothwell in relation to his actions against Mary Queen of Scots at Dunbar. This extremely curious case was effectively an accusation of rape of the Queen in April 1567 but was a precursor to her marriage to Bothwell in May 1567, the whole case being effectively to defend the Queen's honour.
The Water of Leith flowing through Dean Village The Dean Orphanage, now the Dean Gallery The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, built as John Watson's Institution in the Dean The mills of Dene were first mentioned in King David I's founding charter of Holyrood Abbey, usually dated c. 1145, in which he granted one of his mills of Dene to the Abbey. The area remained a separate village until the 19th century. In 1826, John Learmonth, a future Lord Provost of Edinburgh, purchased the Dean Estate from the Nisbets of Dean.
In 1881 a fountain was erected in the park to commemorate Sir William Collins, a figure in the temperance movement who served as Glasgow's Lord Provost between 1877 and 1880. In 1992, the fountain was moved to stand behind the McLennan Arch. The Doulton Fountain, given by Sir Henry Doulton to Glasgow as part of the International Exhibition of 1888, was moved to the Green in 1890. Designed by architect Arthur E. Pearce, the tall fountain was built by the Royal Doulton company to commemorate Queen Victoria's reign.
On 1 November 1833, Leith became a separate Municipal Burgh, with its own provost, magistrates, and council, and was no longer run by bailies. Historically the Lord Provost of Edinburgh was virtue officii Admiral of the Firth of Forth, the Provost of Leith was Admiral of the port, and his four bailies were admirals-depute. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia arrived by sea at Leith with his family and suite on Tuesday 22 September 1896., to begin his visit to Scotland Scottish anarchist Thomas Hastie Bell managed to get in his face to criticize him.
It brought together in Glasgow the principals and staff from all centres, and many friends. On the platform were principals and executives of the College, and ladies, Lord Provost Sir A. B. Swan, Sir Robert Wilson, I. J. Pitman (grandson of the inventor of Pitman’s shorthand), R. M. Allardyce (Director of Education for Glasgow), Bailie Matthew Armstrong, John M. Jack, Rev. Dr. S. J. Ramsay Sibbald and Rev. Dr. W. S. Provand. The toast "Skerry’s College" was proposed by Sir Robert Wilson and replied to by Mr. George Stewart, eldest son of the late principal.
He studied at Glasgow University graduating in 1776. Trained in the family weaving business he owned his own factory Henry Monteith & Company by 1785. In 1802 he opened a second factory making handkerchiefs in the Barrowfield district, and when James died later that year also took over his power loom factory in Pollokshaws. His workforce peaked in 1804 with a huge 6000 employees. In May 1820 in his role as Lord Provost, he had to make provisions for the "Radical War" of the Scottish workforce, employing militia to counteract this insurrection.
Craufurd's youngest son Archibald Tait (1811–1882), who was later Archbishop of Canterbury, spent much of his boyhood at Harviestoun. Craufurd's son, Archibald Campbell Tait, who spent his early years at Harviestoun, later became Archbishop of Canterbury. Businessman and former Lord Provost of Glasgow Sir Andrew Orr (1802–1874) bought the estate in 1859. He added a new tower and porch to the castle, in pink sandstone, and formed two approaches, one leading from Tillicoultry, the other from the East Lodge, situated about one mile west of Dollar.
In the Disruption of 1843 in the Church of Scotland he played a leading role in the political guidance upon the religious schism. In 1854 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being John Learmonth his counterpart, being the former Lord Provost of Edinburgh. He was later Vice Chairman of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and remained Vice Chairman when it amalgamated to create the far larger North British Railway. He sold Craigton House to a merchant, Graham Hutchison, several years prior to his death.
Stark was also interested in town planning. His Report to the Lord Provost, Magistrates and Council of Edinburgh on the Plans for Laying out the Grounds for Buildings between Edinburgh and Leith was published posthumously in 1814. It was also published in the Scots Magazine in 1815. This short essay emphasised building the Edinburgh townscape with picturesque variety and careful attention to contours, using the benefits of oblique views and the value of trees, rather than imposing the geometry and symmetry exemplified by James Craig's First New Town.
As Lord Provost, he had proclaimed George I's accession at Edinburgh. He was elected as Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh at the 1715 general election and was created a Baronet, of Lochend, in the County of Haddington on 2 June 1715. In Parliament he voted with the Government in every recorded division. At the start of the 1715 Jacobite rebellion, he was in London but went to Scotland in August, judging it was more important for him to be at Edinburgh at the time than in Westminster.
Lord Forteviot was chairman of the distilling firm John Dewar and Sons and a director of Buchanan-Dewar Ltd and of Distillers Company Ltd. He also represented Inverness-shire in the House of Commons from 1900 to 1917 and was twice Lord Provost of Perth. He was created a Baronet in 1907 and in 1917 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Forteviot, of Dupplin in the County of Perth. In 1912 he chaired the Dewar Commission, an examination of the state of healthcare provision in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
The Provost of Elgin was the head of the Elgin burgh council in Scotland. Provosts were elected by the council and served not only as the chairman of that body, but as a figurehead for the town. Elgin Town Council ceased to exist in May 1975, its duties being taken over by Moray District Council and Grampian Regional Council. Each of the 32 Scottish local authorities elects a convener or provost, but it is only the four main cities, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee that have a Lord Provost.
Bosanquet was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow in 1980, serving until 1984. He was a controversial choice; shortly after his election he hit the headlines when he turned up at an official reception late and drunk, and insulted various guests, including the Lord Provost of Glasgow (and his eventual successor as Rector) Michael Kelly. In 1980, Bosanquet "sang" (or, more accurately, narrated the lyrics in the style of a newscast) on the disco single "Dance with Me". It was voted #1 in the Bottom 30 by listeners of British DJ Kenny Everett.
On 11 April 1839 Johnston was admitted a guild brother of the city of Edinburgh, and that year served again as moderator to the high constables. On 10 November 1840 he was elected a bailie of Edinburgh. During the economic distress of 1842 he presided over the Edinburgh committee of relief, and it was his suggestion that led to public works "The Meadows" and "The Queen's Drive" round Arthur's Seat. From 1848 to 1851 Johnston served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and on 26 August 1851 he was knighted by the queen in Holyrood Palace.
The grave of Sir Thomas Blaikie, graveyard of the Kirk of St Nicholas, Aberdeen Born in Aberdeen, he was the son of John Blaikie (1756–1826), a plumbing merchant and his wife Helen Richardson (1765–1844). His older brother was James Ogilvie Blaikie (1786–1836). He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and then went to Marischal College. On the death of his father he took over his company, J. Blaikie & Co. Blaikie was elected Lord Provost of Aberdeen five times and served from 1839 until 1847 and again from 1853 until 1856.
Jane Weir, or Jean Weir, the sister of Major Thomas Weir who was charged with incest and witchcraft in 1670 and was subsequently executed. Thomas Weir was a strict Protestant whose spoken prayers earned him a reputation that attracted visitors to his home in Edinburgh. Following his retirement in 1670, Weir fell ill and began to confess to a secret life of crime and vice. The Lord Provost initially found the confession implausible and took no action, but eventually Weir and his spinster sister, Jane Weir, were taken to the Edinburgh Tolbooth for interrogation.
He was born at 16 Adelphi CourtAberdeen Post Office Directory 1850 in Aberdeen the son of the future Lord Provost, James Matthews, an architect, and his wife, Elizabeth Duncan. He originally trained as an architect but in 1869 he suffered a severe attack of typhoid fever which greatly damaged his health. He then entered Aberdeen University studying Zoology under James Cossar Ewart who became a lifelong colleague and friend (Ewart was actually the younger of the pair). He travelled to both Australia and America for educational and health reasons.
He joined his father, William Collins, printing company in 1848 and helped expand the business into publishing. In 1868, his two sons became partners in the business and it was renamed William Collins, Sons & Co. Sir William Collins was also politically active, campaigning for the temperance cause throughout his life. He was elected to the Town Council as a Liberal in 1868, became a magistrate in 1873, and was Lord Provost from 1877 to 1880. He helped to form the Glasgow Liberal Association in 1878 and became involved in the Glasgow School Board (1888–1894).
To ensure the commercial success of such a project, subscribers were required to make payments in advance of publication to ensure that the work could proceed. Subscribers for the Views of Glasgow included the Duchess of Montrose, the Lord Provost of Glasgow and Archibald McLellan, a founder of the civic art collection. The engravings were made from pictures produced by Greenock-based John Fleming, Glasgow’s John Knox and Swan himself. The thirty-three plates include views of the city from different vantage points, the leading thoroughfares, buildings, and districts.
The grave of Alexander Kincaid Mackenzie, New Calton Burial Ground He was born in Edinburgh in 1768. It is thought his father died young as his mother "Mrs Mackenzie" is noted as a merchant trading from the Luckenbooths, next to St Giles Cathedral in 1773.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1773 There seems a strong likelihood that he was connected to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1776, Alexander Kincaid, who also had premises at the Luckenbooths. Alexander died in 1777 and Thomas may have been his illegitimate son.
Festival Wheel, East Princes St Gardens Along the south side of Princes Street are many statues and monuments. In the East Gardens most prominent is the Scott Monument, a Neo-Gothic spire built in 1844 to honour Sir Walter Scott. Within East Princes Street Gardens there are statues of the explorer David Livingstone, the publisher and Lord Provost Adam Black and the essayist Professor John Wilson, who wrote under the pseudonym Christopher North. There is also a small commemorative stone honouring the volunteers from the Lothians and Fife who fought in the Spanish Civil War.
Cramond Kirk The Stuart tomb in Greyfriars Kirkyard He was born at Dunearn House near Burntisland in Fife in 1745 the son of James Stuart of Binend, later Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and his first wife, Elizabeth Drummond, daughter of Dr Adam Drummond. He originally trained as a minister and was licensed by the Church of Scotland in 1772. He was ordained in Cramond Kirk the following year. He left Cramond in 1776, later (1781) becoming an Anabaptist minister in Edinburgh. In 1777 he inherited his father's estates in Fife.
Balfour was executed in Sweden in 1576, and, in 1598, the castle was again seized by the Earl of Orkney (now Patrick Stewart, son of Robert). By 1606, the castle had been restored to the Balfours once more, when it was sold to Sir John Arnot, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who later became Sheriff of Orkney. Doorway and shot holes During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in 1650, Royalist officers occupied the castle after their defeat at the Battle of Carbisdale. Local Covenanters captured and burned the castle.
In the same time period he undertook the raising of funds for, and planning of, a new Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, a nine-year project. In 1871, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (proposed by Robert Christison). In 1875, he was elected a city councillor (serving the St Leonards district) and in 1877 was made Lord Provost of Edinburgh. During this period he instructed major rebuilding of Leith Docks, including a new deep water wet dock, the Edinburgh Dock, opened in July 1881.
The grave of James Buchanan of Drumpellier, Greyfriars Kirkyard He was born at Long Croft in Glasgow (now known as Virginia Street) in 1726 the son of Andrew Buchanan of Drumpellier and his wife Marion Montgomery. When James was a teenager his father served as Lord Provost of Glasgow. Although he inherited his father's tobacco plantations and estates, including Drumpellier on his father's death in 1759, he was ruined in 1777 following the American Revolution. He sold the bulk of his estates to his cousin, Andrew Stirling (of William Stirling & Sons).
Roderick Ross as Chief Constable of Ramsgate Roderick Ross CVO CBE KPM (24 May 1865 – 6 March 1943) was Chief Constable of Edinburgh City Police from 1900 to 1935. Ross was born in West Helmsdale in the parish of Kildonan, Sutherland, the son of a crofter. His namesake, his grandfather, a Chelsea Pensioner, had been evicted from Kildonan during the Highland Clearances. Aged 16 he was apprenticed to a Helmsdale tailor, but soon moved to Edinburgh where he was employed by Sir Andrew McDonald, an eminent clothier and later Lord Provost from 1894 to 1897.
Dundee City Chambers, where the city council meets Dundee is one of 32 council areas of Scotland, and is represented by the Dundee City Council – a local council composed of 29 elected councillors. Previously the city was a county of a city and later a district of the Tayside region. Council meetings take place in the City Chambers, which opened in 1933 in City Square. The civic head and chair of the council is known as the Lord Provost, a position similar to that of mayor in other cities.
In 1933 Labour gained control of Glasgow and she began being given various committee roles within the town council. In 1936 she was Senior Magistrate for Glasgow and in 1952 was City Treasurer. Becoming leader of the Labour Party in 1955, she was elected Lord Provost (or, technically, "Lady Provost") in 1960. This critical period of tenure involved much slum clearance in the city and she famously toured the Gorbals district with Queen Elizabeth II in 1961, discussing redevelopment proposals and receiving much press coverage during this trip.
In July 1654, Royalist rebels attacked and burned Castle Campbell over two nights. Argyll was executed following the Restoration of 1660 and his son, the 9th Earl, built Argyll's Lodging in Stirling rather than renovate Castle Campbell. Apart from being briefly garrisoned during the Jacobite rising of 1715 the castle was abandoned, and in 1805 the 6th Duke of Argyll sold it to Crawford Tait of Harviestoun, an adjacent estate. In 1859 Harviestoun, and Castle Campbell, was bought by businessman and former Lord Provost of Glasgow Sir Andrew Orr.
During the Jacobite rising of 1715 the Kincaids supported the exiled Stuarts and following the rising David Kincaid left Scotland and settled in Virginia. During the Jacobite rising of 1745 four sons of Alexander Kincaid, who was Lord Provost of Edinburgh and the King's Printer, fought a rearguard action after the Battle of Culloden. They were taken prisoner but managed to escape, taking a ship to America, and also settling in Virginia. The principal line of Kincaids married into the Lennox family at the end of the eighteenth century.
From then until 1833 the election took place on the first Wednesday after Michaelmas, and from then (at least until 1897) elections were held on the Friday after the first Tuesday in November. He gives the example of John Cheyne elected 1593 who would have continued in office until the Michaelmas election of 1594. The dates below, up to 1897 recognise this pattern. Each of the 32 Scottish local authorities elects a Convener or Provost, but only the cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee have a Lord Provost.
He was the fourth son of Jean (née Steuart) Coutts and John Coutts (1699–1751), who carried on business in Edinburgh as a corn factor and negotiator of bills of exchange, and who in 1742 was elected lord provost of the city. The family was originally of Montrose, but about 1696 one of its members had settled at Edinburgh, where in due course Thomas received his education at the Royal High School.C. Rogers, Genealogical Memoirs of the Families of Colt and Coutts (1879); and R. Richardson, Coutts & Co. (1900).
A provost (introduced into Scots from French) is the ceremonial head of Scottish local authorities and other statutory elected civic bodies past and present such as Town, District and Community Councils, and under the name prévôt () was a governmental position of varying importance in Ancien Régime France. Most of Scotland's 32 modern unitary council areas elect a Provost, who, alongside ceremonial duties similar to mayors in other countries, also acts as convener of the council. In the cities and council areas of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Dundee, the alternative title of Lord Provost is used.
"Lord Provost Appeals for High Poll Today", Glasgow Herald, 3 May 1966, p. 1. In September 1967 Craig was selected as official Conservative candidate for Gorbals ward in a byelection;"50-50 as City Tories get set for Elections", Glasgow Evening Times, 5 September 1967, p. 13. he was one of seven candidates and attempted to stand out by distributing on the eve of poll 5,000 'wage packets' containing an appeal to vote for him.Jack Skilling, "Tory's 'pay packet' plea to voters in Gorbals", Glasgow Evening Times, 23 October 1967, p. 10.
During the Queen's visits, the Royal Company of Archers form her ceremonial bodyguard. The Ceremony of the Keys, in which she is formally presented with the keys of Edinburgh by the Lord Provost, is held on her arrival. At the Palace the Queen meets and appoints the First Minister of Scotland. Prince Charles also stays at Holyrood for one week a year, carrying out official duties as the Duke of Rothesay, while other members of the royal family, including the Princess Royal, visit in a less official capacity.
On the day following the crash all flags on Scottish Government buildings were flown at half-mast; the Christmas lights on George Square were switched off and the attractions closed as a mark of respect. A special service was held in St George's–Tron Church the same day. Further special services were held at Glasgow's St Andrew's Cathedral and Glasgow Cathedral on 24 December. An appeal fund for the victims was set up with initial contributions from the Scottish Government, Glasgow City Council and the office of the Lord Provost of Glasgow.
John Gray, the local policeman, owns Bobby the Westie, but allows a shy boy called Ewan to befriend his dog. When Gray dies and is buried in the Greyfriars Kirkyard, the dog will not leave the grave, despite his fondness for Ewan. The Greyfriars gravedigger, James Brown, takes a liking to Bobby, and gives him food and protection. However, the passing of a new dog law in Scotland threatens Bobby's very existence, and Ewan must do everything in his power to save his canine friend, even when it involves the Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
He was married to Margaret Hall around 1790. His eldest son appears at the visit of King George IV to Scotland in 1822, alongside John Thomas Alston as the then Lord Provost, as Laurence Craigie Jr.Enumeration of the inhabitants of the city of Glasgow and county of Lanark by James Cleland His other children included General Patrick Edmonstone Craigie. His brothers were John Craigie and Robert Craigie, Lord Craigie a Lord of Session and Senator of the College of Justice from 1811. His nephews included Rear Admiral Robert Craigie RN.
However, the Lord Mayors of Liverpool, Manchester and Bristol continued to use the prefix. The matter came to a head in 1921, when King George V visited Liverpool, and the Home Office was forced to write to the council to inform that it could not be used without the express permission of the monarch. In the meantime, the prefix had been formally granted to the Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1912. In 1923 the Lord Mayor of Belfast was granted the honour in recognition of the city's new status as capital of Northern Ireland.
He was appointed Lord President of the Court of Session in 1685, and a Privy Counsellor and a commissioner of the Exchequer in 1686. Lockhart purchased the extensive estates of the Earls of Carnwath in Lanarkshire, which were inherited by his eldest son, George Lockhart of Lee (1673–1731), whose mother was Philadelphia, daughter of Lord Wharton. Lockhart was murdered in Edinburgh returning from church on Easter Sunday, 31 March 1689, by John Chieslie of Dalry, the father of Lady Grange, and older brother to Robert Chieslie, a future Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
Wellcome, London, 1964. p32 In the following months John Monro was involved in the arrangement that Charles Alston should become Professor of Materia Medica and that James Crawford should become Professor of Chemistry. These appointments and the lectures that resulted from them are regarded as the origin of the Edinburgh University medical school. The role played by powerful patrons such as Archibald Campbell, 1st Earl of Ilay (1682– 1761) and Lord Provost George Drummond (1688–1766) in these events, which remains the subject of controversy, has been explored at length by Emerson.
Haddow took a degree in law from the University of Edinburgh, and as one of Glasgow's most senior accountants, he was appointed Lord Dean of Guild of the Merchants House of Glasgow (Glasgow's "second citizen" after the Lord Provost) and served on the City's council. In spite of this he lived in Woodlands, Falkirk and was Honorary President of the Stirlingshire Conservative and Unionist Party Association. Haddow married Jean Howie, daughter of Thomas W. Howie, and together they had one daughter, Barbara. Jean Howie's uncle was Depute Town Clerk of Glasgow.
He was the son of Reverend Hugh Lowthian Bell, only son from the second marriage of the second Baronet. As of 2007 the title is held by his son, the fifth Baronet, who succeeded in 1970. Gertrude Bell was the daughter of the second Baronet from his first marriage. The Bell Baronetcy, of Marlborough Terrace in the Parish of Govan in the County and City of Glasgow, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 29 August 1895 for James Bell, Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1892 to 1896.
A painting of the occasion hung in Leith City Chambers, now Leith Police station. Leith Docks became known as the port for Edinburgh and modest shipbuilding and repair facilities grew. On 20 May 1806, there was a procession of the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Baillies, and Council, along with a numerous company of ladies and gentleman, for the opening of the first new Wet Dock, the first of its kind in Scotland. The Fife packet called The Buccleuch was the first to enter the dock, with the civic dignitaries on board, amid discharges of artillery from the Fort and His Majesty's warships in Leith Roads. The foundation stone for the second (middle) wet dock was laid on 14 March 1811, which was completed and opened with due ceremony in 1817 by Lord Provost Arbuthnot. The same year the Trinity House in Kirkgate was erected in Grecian architectural style at an expense of £2500. During the 19th century Leith became an important entrepôt for the Scottish herring trade, with exports peaking at 388,899 barrels in 1907. The docks at Leith underwent severe decline in the post-Second World War period, with the area gaining a reputation for roughness and prostitution, with an official 'tolerance zone' until 2001.
The grave of John Harrison, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh He was born at 19 St Patrick Square in EdinburghEdinburgh Post Office Directory 1847 on 17 August 1847 the son of Jane Archbald and George Harrison a prominent merchant and later Lord Provost of Edinburgh and owner of Harrison and Sons, a high quality clothier. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh. His most famous work, The Scot in Ulster, was originally published in sections in the Scotsman newspaper. He lived at "Rockville" on Napier Road in Edinburgh, the masterpiece by Edinburgh architect Sir James Gowans.
The boathouse, which was officially opened by the Lord Provost of Glasgow in May 1997, is located in Silverfir Place on the south bank of the River Clyde, just along from Shawfield Stadium. The club colours are yellow and red. These were chosen to reflect the club's origins and were the minor colours of the predecessor clubs: GABC colours were pale blue, black and gold (not yellow) and CGARC were dark blue and red. The oar design has changed from the original yellow with red collar and red tip, through the design displayed, to the current design.
The school coat of arms The exact date of the school's founding is unknown; however, research done to mark the school's 750th anniversary led to the belief it was formed in c. 1257, which is the date that is now used for official school purposes. The earliest documented date of its existence is in the Burgh Records of 1418, when the Lord Provost and Council nominated John Homyll to replace the recently deceased Andrew of Chivas as "Master of the Schools". Originally on Schoolhill, near the site of the current Robert Gordon's College, the curriculum consisted of Latin, Greek and ancient geography.
He had made his money trading tea during the Napoleonic wars, and used this to buy the estate of Comely Bank.Scottish Gazetteer He was by then living at Comely Bank in the Stockbridge district of Edinburgh and he had other estates which he had bought but he was to retire from trade in 1800 to look after these interests. He was involved in many public charities and the general welfare of Edinburgh, serving as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1804 to 1806 (two elected sessions). He became a baronet of Whamphrey in the County of Dumfires on 13 June 1804.
In December 1824, The National Bank of Scotland announced that funds had been raised for the formation of a new bank in Edinburgh. Almost immediately it was followed by advertisements from the Scottish Union Banking Company and the Scottish Union Commercial Banking Company stating that they were to follow suit. Negotiations followed whereby the promoters of the latter two banks agreed to join in with the promoters of the National Bank. In March 1825 the National Bank was formally constituted with a nominal capital of £5 million under the chairmanship of the Lord Provost, Alexander Henderson of Press.
John Farquharson Smith, Baron Kirkhill (born 7 May 1930) is a life peer and retired member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom where he held the Labour Party whip. He was Lord Provost of Aberdeen from 1971 to 1975 and served as Minister of State for Scotland from 8 August 1975 to 15 December 1978. Smith was created a Life Peer as Baron Kirkhill, of Kirkhill in the District of the City of Aberdeen on 17 July 1975. Kirkhill was Chairman of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board from 1979 to 1982.
Plan of the pier, from Brown's book The pier was proposed by Lieutenant George Crichton of the London, Leith, Edinburgh and Glasgow Steam Navigation Company. In 1820 the Lord Provost and magistrates of Edinburgh granted the company permission for the pier's construction. The company then transferred the permission to the Trinity Pier Company who were to administer construction and operate the pier, and they in turn commissioned Captain Samuel Brown to design the pier as his first independent project. Alexander Scott WS, one of the trustees of the company, granted permission to build the pier on his land.
The opening was attended by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the local magistrates, as well as Crichton, Ramsay, Scott, Stevenson, and the other proprietors of the company. Admiral Robert Otway (commander-in-chief of naval forces at Leith), General Duff, Sir George Mackenzie, George Baird (the Principal of Edinburgh University), Robert Jameson, John Leslie, William Wallace, and Brown the designer were also present. When they returned they took refreshment in a tent at the head of the pier. The pier served ferry traffic between Edinburgh and ports on the Firth of Forth and beyond, and was usable at all states of the tide.
A lord provost has a higher status than a lord mayor in other parts of the United Kingdom. He is ex officio the lord-lieutenant for that city, in accordance with section 1 of the Lieutenancies Act 1997, which allows the city council to choose its own representative for the monarch. The lord provosts of Edinburgh and Glasgow enjoy the style of "The Right Honourable" before their office, but not their names. Permission to use the title is granted to a city by the monarch, under the royal prerogative, acting on the advice of government ministers.
James Lumsden James Lumsden (1778-1856) was a Scottish stationer and merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1843 to 1846. He was born on 13 November 1778 in Glasgow,James Lumsden, 100 Glasgow Men (published 1885) the son of James Lumsden, an engraver and publisher, and his wife, Jean Adamson. He was educated at Glasgow Grammar School. Their family publishing firm J. Lumsden and Son was founded in 1783 and specialised in children's books.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: James Lumsden When his father retired in 1810, he then took over the publishing firm.
There was a strong showing by the Scottish National Party, which prefigured their serious breakthrough at the Govan by-election later in the year, and the two general elections of 1974. Dundee's Lord Provost William Fitzgerald was chosen as the Conservative candidate by the Dundee Conservative and Unionist Association from a short leet of six. During the campaign Fitzgerald pledged action to try to prevent the loss of 70 jobs at the local Robb Caledon shipyard. The contest was viewed as three way fight, although the Conservatives and Labour claimed it was a contest between their candidates.
Wilde's paternal Scottish ancestors were upper-class and lived in many locations at the height of the British Empire, including Peking (where her paternal grandfather was born), Calcutta, Bombay, Cairo, and Tasmania. A great-great-grandfather, Henry Arthur Blake, was governor of Hong Kong. Her other paternal ancestors include abolitionist and Anglican cleric James Ramsay; politician George Arbuthnot; lawyer, judge, and literary figure Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn; Lord Provost of Edinburgh William Arbuthnot; and Thomas Osborne. Through her father's family, Wilde is related to George Cockburn, who was responsible for burning down Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812.
In 1845 he was elected as one of the ordinary magistrates; and in 1847 he attained the office of senior bailie, or acting chief magistrate. In the autumn of that year Mr. Hastie, the then Lord Provost, was elected as one of the two representatives of the city in Parliament, one result of which was that he was resident chiefly in London, and another, that the duties which, had he been resident in Glasgow, he would have required to discharge personally, were devolved upon, and had to be performed by Mr. Stewart, as acting chief magistrate.
On the escape of the king from Falkland Palace to Stirling in July 1528, Maxwell separated himself from the party of Angus, and was chosen one of the new council. Having accompanied the king to Edinburgh he was again made lord provost of the city, and on 26 August frustrated an attempt of Angus to take possession of it. He was one of the jurors on the trial of Angus, and on his forfeiture received a portion of his lands. Like most of the southern nobles, Maxwell gave his indirect countenance to the border raiders, and engaged in raids on his own account.
In the 1942 film Random Harvest, Greer Garson plays a member of a traveling troupe. She sings "She's Ma Daisy" and tells jokes doing an impression of Lauder. Websites carry much of his material and the Harry Lauder Collection, amassed by entertainer Jimmy Logan, was bought for the nation and donated to the University of Glasgow. When the A199 Portobello bypass opened, it was named the Sir Harry Lauder Road. On 28 July 1987, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh hosted a luncheon at the Edinburgh City Chambers to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Lauder receiving the Freedom of the City.
Prior to commencing her own political career, Millar assisted her father in his duties as Lord Provost. This included work for the Lord Provost's Comfort Fund for troops in the First World War. In 1919 she ran for Edinburgh Council in the Morningside Ward by-election, and became the first female councillor in a Scottish city in January 1919. Prior to this, women in office in Scottish cities had only served on school and parish council/parochial boards. In her campaign, she argued that Edinburgh faced a number of problems, towards ‘the solution of which’ women could ‘render valuable service’ .
Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, was presented the award in 2017. While in Edinburgh to receive the award, Prof Piot delivered an address that discussed epidemics in a global context and focused on obesity. In 2016, Edinburgh’s Lord Provost presented the award to Kevin Govender and the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The award was presented in recognition of the creation and practical establishment of the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development, which integrates the pursuit of scientific knowledge with social development for and with those most in need.
Baron Bilsland, of Kinrara in the County of Inverness, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 31 January 1950 for Sir Steven Bilsland, 2nd Baronet, head of Bilsland Brothers Ltd, bakers, of Glasgow. The titles became extinct on his death on 10 December 1970. The Baronetcy, of Park Circus in the City of Glasgow, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 25 November 1907 for William Bilsland, a partner of Bilsland Brothers, founded by his brother James Bilsland, and Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1905 to 1908.
Both worked predominately in the north-east around their home city, but also painted many of the figures of early-Enlightenment Edinburgh. Alexander's best known work included the portrait of George Drummond the Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1756), who had been responsible for the creation of the New Town in Edinburgh and the Royal Infirmary, which is shown in the background of the painting. Mosman's work included his portrait of John Campbell of the Bank (1749), who was chief cashier of the Royal Bank of Scotland and a Whig, but who is depicted in the recently forbidden Highland Dress.
This was a title held by one of the bailies of the burgh who presided over a Dean of Guild Court which was given the specific duty of building control. The courts were abolished in 1975, with building regulation transferred to the relevant local authority. Appointments to the office of Dean of Guild are still made in some areas: for instance the Lord Dean of Guild of Glasgow is described as the "second citizen of Glasgow" after the Lord Provost although the appointment is in the hands of the Merchants House of Glasgow, and not the city council.
Sir Robert Cranston by Alexander Ignatius Roche Brigadier-General Sir Robert Cranston (2 June 1843Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 – 22 October 1923) was a Scottish military officer who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1903 to 1906. He had an illustrious military career largely with the Volunteer Force. In 1914, he set up the first Edinburgh Pals battalion; the 15th battalion Royal Scots (also known as the Manchester- Scottish owing to its high ratio of members from the Manchester area). This was quickly followed by two further volunteer battalions; the 16th and 17th.
Glamis, then only in his sixteenth year, confessed, and was placed in prison. Some time later he was released from prison, but on 3 December 1540 his estates were annexed to the crown by act of parliament. On 13 March 1543 the forfeiture was rescinded, and he was restored to his titles and estates. In 1544 Glamis, along with Patrick Gray, 4th Lord Gray, and Norman Leslie, supported Charteris of Kinfauns in his attempt to seize Perth of which he had been elected Lord Provost, from William Ruthven, 2nd Lord Ruthven, who had been deprived of the provostship by Cardinal Beaton.
A letter to Bailie Kincain Mackenzie 1810, Oliver & Boyd In 1818, during his period as Lord Provost, a similar accusation caused him to publish the Council's finances in full.A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, John Kay (p.373) In 1817, at Gayfield Square, he hosted a visit from Prince Leopold of Belgium, and this name was then used for the mew buildings under construction nearby, at the junction of Leith Walk and London Road, still known as Leopold Place.Grants Old and New Edinburgh He was noted in 1819 as an ex-President of the Edinburgh Magdalene Asylum for Fallen Women.
The house was sold to Archibald Primrose, 1st Earl of Rosebery, in 1703, and then to Sir Robert Blackwood, Lord Dean of Guild, and later Lord Provost, of Edinburgh, in 1711. It remained in the Blackwood family for 170 years, but was unoccupied for almost a century. The castle was bought by Henry Beveridge, a wealthy mill owner, in 1884, when it was extended and modernised. He commissioned the architect Charles Kinnear in 1885 to add an east wing, insert larger windows on the ground floor, and add a portico to the north, leading to a new main entrance.
Following Mrs Oman's death in 1845, 6 Charlotte Square was sold by her heirs to Alexander Campbell of Cammo, who lived in the house with his family until his death in 1887. Campbell commissioned David Rhind to make various alterations and additions to the house in 1867. The next owner of the house was Sir Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baronet, who was to make it his home for the next 30 years. A partner in his family's timber business, and a director of the Bank of Scotland, he also served as the Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1897 until 1900.
Charles Albany Marjoribanks (1794 - 3 December 1833) was a Scottish Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1833. Marjoribanks was the son of Sir John Marjoribanks, 1st Baronet, MP and Lord Provost of Edinburgh.Marjoribanks,Roger (2014) "Edinburgh Portrait, Sir John Marjoribanks , Bart, MP (1763–1833)" The Book of the Edinburgh Club, Volume 10, Pp 151-156, As a young man he worked for the East India Company in Macao and, aged 30, he became a freeman of the city of Edinburgh. At the 1832 general election Marjoribanks was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwickshire.
The size of the land purchased was . > ::::::::::::::::::::::::New Club, Glasgow, 28th July 1905 My Dear Lord > Provost, > > I have just agreed to purchase a part of the Ardkinglas estate with the > object of handing over the three sheep farms lying between Loch Long and > Loch Goil to the Corporation of Glasgow. The extent of the land is about . > As it is not possible in many cases for the public to have access to > mountains in this neighbourhood, it seems to me desirable that our fellow- > citizens should have a mountain territory which will be their own for all > time.
Except for the hull a new ship had to be rebuilt. All the changes made to the ship by the Spanish and previous owners had to be removed, such as all the cabins built for the trainees and a lot of scrap iron ballast in the frames of the holds. First of all she was given back her original name, Glenlee, by the Lord Provost of Glasgow on 6 July 1993 when the ship arrived in Glasgow for the first time since her launch in 1896. Glenlee is now recognised as part of the National Historic Fleet.
The Old Town became an increasingly dilapidated, overcrowded slum with high mortality rates. Improvements carried out under Lord Provost William Chambers in the 1860s began the transformation of the area into the predominantly Victorian Old Town seen today. More improvements followed in the early 20th century as a result of the work of Patrick Geddes, but relative economic stagnation during the two world wars and beyond saw the Old Town deteriorate further before major slum clearance in the 1960s and 1970s began to reverse the process. University building developments which transformed the George Square and Potterrow areas proved highly controversial.
Dudhope Castle, home of Viscount Dundee. In 1684, he married Lady Jean Cochrane, daughter to William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald, a staunch Covenanter. Shortly after the death of Charles II in 1685, Claverhouse incurred a temporary disgrace – he stood up for the rights of ordinary soldiers who were being poorly treated – by his deposition from the office of privy councillor; but he was reinstated in May, although his commission of justiciary, which had expired, was not renewed. In 1686, he was promoted to the rank of major-general, and given the additional position of Constable, the dignity of Lord Provost of Dundee.
Born David Marjoribanks, he was the fourth son of Sir John Marjoribanks, 1st Baronet, MP and Lord Provost of Edinburgh.Marjoribanks,Roger (2014) "Edinburgh Portrait, Sir John Marjoribanks , Bart, MP (1763–1833)" The Book of the Edinburgh Club, Volume 10, Pp 151-156, He was descended from Joseph Marjoribanks, a wine and fish merchant in Edinburgh who died in 1635 and is thought to have been the grandson of Thomas Marjoribanks of Ratho,Marjoribanks, Roger. "Marjoribanks of Lees", The Marjoribanks Journal Number 3, page 14, June 1995. Accessed on 25 October 2009 head of the lowland clan Marjoribanks.
He was an active member of the Draughtsmen's and Allied Technicians' Association (Data; later successively renamed as AUEW-Tass, MSF, Amicus and Unite). He joined the Labour party in 1950, and was elected to Aberdeen City Council in 1959, serving as a councillor until 1971. He became leader of the local Labour group in 1967, and served as Lord Provost and Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeen in 1970–71. After he failed to be selected for the safe Labour seat of Aberdeen North, losing out to Robert Hughes, he found favour instead in Oldham East, where he was elected in June 1970.
He was born in Edinburgh on 30 January 1766. He was the son of Jean Drummond, daughter of George Drummond, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Rev John Jardine (1715–1766), minister of the Tron Kirk on the Royal Mile. He attended the High School in Edinburgh and then studied law at the University of Edinburgh. Following graduation he was apprenticed to John Davidson WS based on Castlehill on the Royal Mile.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1785–95 In 1790 he was winner of the Edinburgh Arrow as finest archer in the Royal Company of Archers.
The Monument on Calton Hill, next to the Governor's House In 1837 the Radical politician Joseph Hume MP initiated a plan to erect a monument to the five men. Hume chaired a London-based committee to raise public subscriptions in support of the monument and settled on its location being in Edinburgh. In that year the publisher William Tait of Edinburgh wrote on their behalf to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh requesting that land be made available on Calton Hill for this end. The foundation stone was laid by Hume on 21 August 1844, with 3,000 people gathered for the occasion.
Unlike its Glaswegian counterpart, which exclusively contested elections to the Glasgow Corporation, Dundee's now larger party fought for a seat in the United Kingdom Parliament. The appointment of George Thomson as a European Commissioner in January 1973 saw him vacate his constituency of Dundee East, triggering a by-election two months later. The Labour Party of Scotland selected George MacLean to be its candidate, pitting him against Labour's George Machin, the SNP's Gordon Wilson and Conservative candidate William Fitzgerald, then Lord Provost of Dundee. Nathaniel Gordon of the Liberal Party, equally optimistic, attracted Jeremy Thorpe to the city during his campaign.
The word prévôt (provost) applied to a number of different persons in pre-Revolutionary France. The term referred to a seignorial officer in charge of managing burgh affairs and rural estates and, on a local level, customarily administered justice. Therefore, in Paris, for example, there existed both the "Lord Provost of Paris" who presided a lower royal court, as well as the very important and influential "Provost of the Merchants" (prévôt des marchands), i.e. the Dean of the City Guilds, who headed traditionally the City Council and the City's merchant companies, thus being de facto a kind of feudal mayor.
The team's league campaign was dreadful and they eventually finished fifth. Celtic did reach the Scottish Cup Final in 1990, but after the match finished 0–0 (after extra time) Aberdeen beat them 9–8 on penalties. During that season, Celtic captain Roy Aitken left to join Newcastle United, with Paul McStay taking over the captaincy of the side. In May 1990 former Lord Provost of Glasgow, Michael Kelly, and property developer Brian Dempsey joined the Celtic board; teaming up with Chairman Jack McGinn and existing directors Chris White, Kevin Kelly, James Farrell and Tom Grant.
The Mitchell Library, Glasgow In November 1876, Barrett became a candidate for the post of Librarian of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, then about to be commenced. His appointment was approved by Glasgow Town Council in February 1877, and he entered on the duties of the post on 15 March of that year. On 1 November 1877, in temporary premises at 60 Ingram Street, the Mitchell Library was opened to the public by Lord Provost Sir James Bain. Following the decision of the Corporation to establish district libraries in different parts of the city, Barrett was nominated City Librarian in May 1901.
Biggar was also active in the co-operative movement. An early member of the Co- operative Party, he stood as its candidate in Paisley at the 1918 general election, and again at a by-election in 1920 and general elections in 1922 and 1923, but was never elected. In 1929, Biggar was elected to the Glasgow Corporation, representing the Labour Party, which had formed a national coalition with the Co-operative Party. During the 1930s, he also served as President of the London Association of Certified Accountants, then in 1941 was elected as Lord Provost of Glasgow.
About Arden, Glen Oaks Housing AssociationAnnouncing Scottish Special Housing, The Blantyre Project, 18 November 2018 It was an early adopter of Computer Aided Architectural Design. Its chairman from 1968 to 1972 was Sir William Gray who went on to be Lord Provost of Glasgow.Glasgow Herald obituary, 11 July 2000 SSHA had a large Direct Labour Organisation (DLO) which helped develop a no- fines concrete building technique which was used to build thousands of houses. In 1989 it was abolished (as a direct result of Conservative policy on privatisation under Margaret Thatcher) and some of its functions transferred to Scottish Homes.
Transport for Edinburgh is the organisation that oversees public transport in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. It manages the city's public transport operations in a similar manner to Transport for London, but with many fewer powers. The organisation works to integrate public transport services in Edinburgh operated by Edinburgh Trams, Lothian Buses and First Scotland East. It will eventually include cycling and walking routes within its portfolio, but will focus solely on buses and trams during its first twelve months. The formation of the organisation was announced on 15 August 2013, by Edinburgh transport convener and former Lord Provost of Edinburgh Lesley Hinds.
Sir John's advocacy that the volunteer movement should be made a national one, by including all ranks of the people, that force owed a great deal at its start. At the request of the Lord Provost of Edinburgh he himself raised a couple of artisan companies of 100 men each in a single day, and this continued until a whole battalion was formed out of similar materials. The example of Edinburgh was quickly followed throughout the country, and the impulse then given has never been lost. In 1862 he became a leader-writer on the Morning Star, having as colleagues many men who subsequently distinguished themselves in literature and politics.
William Hughes, Baron Hughes CBE PC (22 January 1911 – 31 December 1999), was a Labour party politician in the United Kingdom. Hughes was elected to Dundee Town Council in 1933 at the age of 22. In 1954 he became Lord Provost of Dundee, a post he held until 1960, while he remained a councillor until 1961. He was also a Justice of the Peace for the city from 1943 until 1974. In the Second World War Hughes was Dundee's civil defense controller until 1943, when he joined the armed forces. He was commissioned in 1944, becoming a Captain by the end of the conflict.
Portobello Library is a public library in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland. The current building in Rosefield Place cost £37,500 and was opened on 11 October 1963 by Lord Provost Duncan M. Weatherstone with a stock of 26,000 books and eight staff. The previous accommodation in the former Portobello Town Hall (now Portobello Police Station) was considered unfit for purpose and was criticized for being dirty, dark and overcrowded. Opened in 1897, the year after Portobello was formally incorporated into the City of Edinburgh, the library service is the joint-second oldest in Edinburgh (after Central Library (1890) and joint with Western (Dundee Street) Library (1897).
The elder Arthur was grandson of the sculptor William Calder Marshall (1813–1894). William Calder Marshall's father William Marshall (1780–1859), D.L. (Edinburgh), a goldsmith (including to the King in the early nineteenth century) and jeweller, had married Annie, daughter of merchant William Calder, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1810-11, by his wife Agnes, a daughter of landed gentleman Hugh Dalrymple. The Marshall family were Episcopalian goldsmiths from Perthshire; the Calder family were merchants.Seekers of Truth: The Scottish Founders of Modern Public Accountancy, T. A. Lee, JAI Press, 2006, pp. 246-7 A short, unhappy stint teaching English at Denstone College, Staffordshire, 1931–33, inspired his novel Dead Centre.
Puddle clay, for the watertight barrier within the dam came from the Carluke area; this material was initially developed by James Brindley for canal lining. In total, over 100,000 tons of material were transported for the building of the reservoir, and at least 30 of the workmen (who were mostly Irish) died during construction and are buried at Tweedsmuir churchyard. The dam, 2006 Construction work was virtually complete by late 1904 and Talla Water was diverted into the bed of the reservoir on 20 May 1905. The official opening ceremony on 28 September was carried out by Lady Cranston, wife of the Lord Provost.
Stone carving from Dean House, now part of retaining wall in Dean Cemetery The cemetery stands on the site of Dean House (built 1614), part of Dean Estate which had been purchased in 1609 by Sir William Nisbet, who became in 1616 Lord Provost of Edinburgh. The Nisbets of Dean held the office of Hereditary Poulterer to the King. The famous herald, Alexander Nisbet, of Nisbet House, near Duns, Scottish Borders, Berwickshire, is said to have written his Systems of Heraldry in Dean House. The estate house was demolished in 1845, and sculptured stones from it are incorporated into the south retaining wall supporting at the south side of the cemetery.
Their son, John Bowman, became Lord Provost of Glasgow and married a Miss Houghton of Dublin in 1734, the couple had two sons and two daughters. When he died in 1796 he left the estate and other properties in the parish to Anne, his eldest daughter, because his eldest son John married and settled in North America, whilst his second son Houghton married a Miss Vere and moved to Dominica. John Bowman changed the name from Ashinyards to Ashgrove. Anne Bowman married Miller Hill Hunt, a captain in the 6th Regiment of Foot who had fought and been wounded at the Battle of Culloden.
In 2006, the Dorothy Dunnett Society arranged for a memorial stone to be laid in the memory of Dorothy Dunnett in the Makars' Court by the entrance to the Scottish Writer's Museum at Lady Stair's Close on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. The unveiling ceremony was attended by Dorothy Dunnett's son, Mungo Dunnett and his family, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Makar (Valerie Gillies), and the Ross Herald (Charles Burnett) as well as members of the Society and others. The stone contains Lady Dunnett's coat of arms, and a short quote from one of her books "Where are the links in the chain ... joining us to the past".
Some cities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have the further distinction of having a lord mayor rather than a simple mayor — in Scotland, the equivalent is the lord provost. Lord mayors have the right to be styled "The Right Worshipful The Lord Mayor". The lord mayors and provosts of Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, City of London and York have the further right to be styled "The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor" (or Provost), although they are not members of the Privy Council as this style usually indicates. The style is associated with the office, not the person holding it, so "The Right Worshipful Joseph Bloggsworthy" would be incorrect.
Dollan was election organiser for the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in the 1922 United Kingdom general election and then the chairman of the Scottish section of the ILP from 1922 until 1932, when he was expelled and formed his own Scottish Socialist Party, which immediately affiliated to the Labour Party.James Jupp, The Radical Left in Britain: 1931-1941, p. 47 Dollan served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1938-41. In 1939 he won the inaugural St Mungo Prize, which is awarded triannually to the person deemed to have done the most to promote and improve the city of Glasgow in the previous three years.
The Clark Baronetcy, of Cavendish Square, London, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 9 August 1883 for Andrew Clark, in recognition of his services to medical science. The title became extinct on the death of the third Baronet in 1979. The Clark Baronetcy, of Melville Crescent, Edinburgh in the County of Midlothian, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 28 September 1886 for Thomas Clark, Lord Provost of Edinburgh between 1885 and 1888. Henry James Douglas Clark (1888–1978), second son of the second Baronet, was a Brigadier in the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
James Cowan (1816 – 24 November 1895) was a Liberal Party politician in Scotland. He was the son of Alexander Cowan, papermaker and philanthropist. He was one of eleven children including Charles Cowan MP, and Sir John Cowan Bart..Oxford National Dictionary of Biography He was Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1872 to 1874. He was elected at the 1874 general election as a Member of Parliament for Edinburgh, and held the seat until he resigned from the House of Commons in 1882 by the procedural device of taking the office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham.
George Drummond (1688–1766) was six times Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and the founder of Edinburgh New Town. He was responsible for the redevelopment of Edinburgh, founding the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; co-founding the Medical School; draining the Nor’ Loch; founding the Royal Exchange in 1753; and most importantly, initiating and founding the New Town and the first North Bridge (1763). John Gregory MD (1724–1773) and his son James Gregory MD (1753–1821) were from a long line of Gregorys from Aberdeen, eminent in both medicine and science. John was Professor of Medicine in Aberdeen from 1755 to 1766, and at Edinburgh University from 1766 until his death.
From 1880 until 1883, he was the Lord Provost of AberdeenDebretts House of Commons and the Judicial Bench 1886 In 1884, he was a guest at Haddo House for a dinner hosted by John Hamilton- Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in honour of William Ewart Gladstone on his tour of Scotland. Esslemont was first elected as the Liberal Member of Parliament for East Aberdeenshire at the 1885 general election. He remained an MP there until he resigned in late 1892 to take up the post of Chairman of the Fisheries Board for Scotland. He died in Aberdeen in 1894 aged 60 and is buried at the Nellfield Cemetery.
Hugh Mackail, a martyr of the covenant, was born about 1640. He studied, with a view to the church, at the University of Edinburgh, under the care of his uncle, one of the ministers of that city, and was afterwards, for some time, chaplain to Sir James Stuart of Coltness, then lord provost of Edinburgh. In 1661, he was licensed to preach, being then in his twenty-first year. On the 1 September 1662, when 400 presbyterian ministers were about to be driven from their charges for non-compliance with episcopacy, he delivered a discourse in the High Church of Edinburgh, from the Song of Solomon, i.
By 30 January, 40,000 workers from the Clydes engineering and shipbuilding industries had joined. Sympathy strikes also started among local power station workers and miners from the nearby Lanarkshire and Stirlingshire pits. The rapid growth of the action was credited to flying pickets, most of whom were recently discharged servicemen. This was Scotland's most widespread strike since the Radical War of 1820, which had followed the end of the Napoleonic Wars. On 29 January a delegation of strikers met the Lord Provost of Glasgow, and it was agreed that he would send a telegram to the Deputy Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law, asking the government to intervene.
Carstairs House was designed by the Edinburgh architect William Burn and built for Henry Monteith MP between 1821 and 1823. It then passed to his son Robert Monteith, and on his death to Joseph Monteith, who built a hydroelectric plant at nearby Jarviswood, and the Carstairs House Tramway to transport guests and family to and from Carstairs railway station.The Electrical engineer, Volume 3, 1889 It was purchased by Sir James King, the former Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1899. In 1924 Carstairs House was acquired the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow who had selected it as base for the St Charles' Certified Institution for "mentally defective Catholic children".
During the planning for the first Edinburgh International Festival in 1947, the then Lord Provost, Sir John Falconer, issued an appeal for "citizens who will be prepared to act, in a voluntary capacity, as guides," their duties consisting of "taking parties of visitors … along the Royal Mile and explaining to them its historical associations." Twelve volunteers came forward to lead walking tours twice a day during the Festival. The tours, which were coordinated by John Bowman, a former City Water Engineer, were listed in the Festival's official programme under the heading "Special Tours". The Festival Society provided secretarial and financial assistance and took responsibility for vetting the volunteers.
At Pringle's suggestion, the street was instead named Prince's Street after King George's eldest son, Prince George, Duke of Rothesay (later King George IV) as recounted in his 1767 letter to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. By the late 1830s the apostrophe in the name (which had also sometimes been written as Princes' Street) had largely fallen out of use, giving the street its present day name of Princes Street. The apparent plurality in the name has given rise to various erroneous explanations of the name. It was laid out according to formal plans for Edinburgh's New Town, now known as the First New Town.
He was born the third son of Lawrence Craigie, later twice Lord Provost of Glasgow. He was educated at Glasgow School and College and in 1813 joined the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) as an ensign. He served with the 2nd Battalion in Holland during the Napoleonic Wars in the campaign of 1813–14. He took part in the attacks on the fortified village of Merxem on the outskirts of Antwerp, where he led the advance party of Major-General Sir Herbert Taylor's Brigade, and in the bombardment of Antwerp itself. He became Lieutenant by purchase in 1814, Captain by purchase in 1821 and Major by purchase in 1826.
The design of Strathleven has been compared to his houses at Newhailes near Edinburgh and Raith House in Kirkcaldy. The dovecote which stands nearby is considered to be contemporary with the house. After William Cochrane's death in 1717 the house was sold to Archibald Campbell of Stonefield, a kinsman of the Duke of Argyll. In 1830 it was sold again, to Glasgow merchant James Ewing, who shortly after served as Lord Provost of Glasgow and Member of Parliament for Glasgow. He changed the name of the estate to Strathleven, and enlarged the estate substantially by the purchase of Dumbarton Muir from Dumbarton Town Council in 1841.
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Steel, both in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The Steel Baronetcy, of Murieston in Midcalder in the City of Edinburgh, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 6 July 1903 for James Steel, Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1900 to 1903. The title became extinct on his death in 1904. The Steel, later Strang-Steel Baronetcy, of Philiphaugh in the County of Selkirk, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 2 July 1938 for Samuel Strang Steel, Conservative Member of Parliament for Ashford from 1918 to 1929 and Lord-Lieutenant of Selkirkshire from 1948 to 1958.
The quay was named for Robert Donald, well known 'Tobacco Lord' and Lord Provost of Glasgow who acquired the nearby Mountblow estate (NS 4798 7222) in 1767 and built a mansion house there. Robert came from an old established Dumbartonshire family.Old Country Houses - MountblowTransactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society The presence of a Roman fort nearby at Old Kilpatrick and the presence of a bath house at Ferrydyke has led to speculation that a harbour of some sort may have existed in the area to service the fort itself and the requirements of the Antonine Wall infrastructure.Old Kilpatrick Fort Bruce speculates that a ferry across the Clyde once existed here in Roman times.
In the mid-19th century the administrative centre of the town was the old city chambers at the east end of the High Street. However, civic leaders needed a public hall in which to hold concerts and other public events and the first city hall was built on the site of the old flesh, butter and meal markets in King Edward Street in 1844. By the turn of the centre the first city hall was in a very dilapidated state and, after a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling injuring several people, the building was demolished in 1908. The foundation stone for the new building was laid by the Lord Provost, Councillor James Cuthbert, on 26 June 1909.
In 1967, he was elected to Sheffield City Council. At a March 1973 by-election, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for Dundee East, holding off by 1,141 votes a strong challenge from Gordon Wilson of the Scottish National Party. The contest had been seen as three-way fight between Machine, Wilson and Lord Provost of Dundee, William Fitzgerald, standing as Conservative. On the day of the election it was specualted in The Glasgow Herald that the Labour vote may be hurt by the fact that Machin was an English candidate in a Scottish seat and because some local Labour supporters were angered as the felt Machin's trade union had used influence to "buy" his nomination.
His body was cut down against the wishes of the mob, and the ensuing riot was such that the hangman had to be placed in protective custody. As the situation worsened, for fear of an attempt to rescue the victims, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh instructed Captain Porteous to call out the entire guard and to furnish them with powder and shot. After the execution, the mob became violent and began to stone the City Guard. Accounts of events are confused, but what is certain is that Porteous instructed his men to fire above the heads of the crowd, but in so doing, they wounded people in the windows of the high tenement buildings opposite.
Much of the history belonging to the High Court of Constabulary comes from records kept by the Earls of Erroll, who hold the position of Lord High Constable as a hereditary right. However, the burgh magistrates (the Lord Provost and bailies) of Edinburgh appear to have objected to the jurisdiction of the Constabulary Court, and from the 16th century it appears that the Earls of Erroll appointed the burgh magistrates as Constables-depute. The Lord High Constable continued to claim his jurisdiction into the 19th century, and from then the Sheriff of Edinburgh and the burgh magistrates of Edinburgh were appointed as Constables-depute whenever the Monarch of the United Kingdom was resident at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Annie's first husband's name is unknown, but she was the daughter of Charles Craigie-Halkett-Inglis of Hallhill, Fife and Cramond House, near Edinburgh, by his wife Susan, the youngest daughter of Sir John Marjoribanks of Lees (1763–1833), 1st Bt., M.P., Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Annie and 'JD' (as he was known) divorced their respective spouses so they could marry in May 1873. Annie was reputed to be very beautiful despite her face being marred by a 'Port wine mark' (birth mark), which led her to favouring veils in later life. In 1917, he and Annie died within six weeks of one another, at their home 'Goodrest', also known as Shinfield Park, Berkshire.
In the mid nineteenth century, the Edinburgh suburb of Newington with its dwellings, shops and businesses, was bounded on its south side by an old drove road (now East and West Mayfield) beyond which were the farms and fields of Mayfield. However, in 1870 Duncan McLaren of Newington House, a past Lord Provost of Edinburgh and MP, began feuing his Mayfield land and by the time of his death in 1886 it was almost wholly built over. It was against this background that Mayfield Free Church (as it was first called) was built. The site for the present church was selected in July 1876, and the main sanctuary was completed in 1879, the spire being added in 1894.
Campbell was born in George Square, Glasgow See Glasgow Digital Library or Google Books for Who's Who in Glasgow 1909 entry for James Alexander Campbell link a son of Sir James Campbell of Stracathro and his wife Janet Bannerman of Manchester. His father established the firm J & W Campbell, wholesale merchants and was Lord Provost of Glasgow between 1840 and 1843. Campbell was educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow University and became a partner in the family firm of J & W Campbell. He became a member of Glasgow University Council in 1859, and in 1865 was appointed convener of the committee in charge of raising of funds to build and maintain a new university on Gilmorehill.
The council first began electoral activity by opposing the re-election of Lord Provost of Aberdeen George Jamieson. By 1879, it was backing favoured candidates in the School Board election, and it first supported independent labour candidates in the 1885 local elections, with James Forbes and George Maconnachie elected. In 1891, it was a founding affiliate of the Scottish United Trades Councils Labour Party, and sponsored Henry Hyde Champion in Aberdeen South at the 1892 UK general election, although he could only take third place in the poll. At the 1895 UK general election, there was another independent labour candidate, John Lincoln Mahon, but the council eventually decided not to back his candidacy.
The pool was commissioned by the Council under a plan by the then Lord Provost, Sir Herbert Archbold Brechin in 1966 as part of a wider project to bring the Commonwealth Games to Edinburgh. This, with the help of other committee members such as Sir John Inch, came to fruition in October 1969 Construction began in 1967 and was completed in October 1969. The architecture was by Robert Matthew Johnson Marshall with structural input from Ove Arup & Partners.Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh, Gifford McWilliam and Walker The pool was used for elite diving events hosted in Edinburgh, it has also been used for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the inaugural 2018 European Championships, both hosted in Glasgow.
A month after their marriage, Paul was elected President of the national Rotary organisation, with Chesley Perry as secretary. Jean recalled "We wives played a very small part at convention in those days; our young men were struggling to find themselves." When Paul began to take time off from his job as a lawyer to travel to Rotary conventions, Jean accompanied him. Jean Thomson Harris and Paul Harris in Buenos Aires during a tour of South American clubs In 1934 Jean and Paul were invited to visit the Rotary Club of Edinburgh, where the Lord Provost invited Paul to speak as guest of honour at the Assembly of the Lord Provosts of Scotland.
Higgs was the recipient of the Edinburgh Award for 2011. He is the fifth person to receive the Award, which was established in 2007 by the City of Edinburgh Council to honour an outstanding individual who has made a positive impact on the city and gained national and international recognition for Edinburgh. Higgs was presented with an engraved loving cup by the Rt Hon George Grubb, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, in a ceremony held at the City Chambers on Friday 24 February 2012. The event also marked the unveiling of his handprints in the City Chambers quadrangle, where they had been engraved in Caithness stone alongside those of previous Edinburgh Award recipients.
Struthers and Kelly made a formidable combination that gave the whole campaign an impetus hitherto unseen in UK civic marketing activity. The campaign was launched in June 1983 by the Lord Provost to immense media attention and comment and in a very short time, the slogan, "Glasgow's Miles Better" had entered the UK vocabulary. Some £100,000 was raised as a result of the Struthers fund raising proposals followed by the Scottish Development Agency (now Scottish Enterprise) agreeing to match this sum pound for pound. The reason for their contribution was due to a report they had commissioned, part of which suggested that the City of Glasgow would derive significant economic benefits from increased external marketing activity.
Blackwood was born in Edinburgh on 2 October 1696, and baptised two days later, a younger son of Sir Robert Blackwood of Pitreavie, a rich silk merchant and one-time (1711-1712) Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and Jannet Glas (variously spelled). Records suggest that in 1716 Blackwood was indentured to Robert Aston, a merchant in London, although there is nothing to confirm this was the right John Blackwood. Blackwood initially set out on a political career, and at the 1727 British general election, he was returned as Member of Parliament for Glasgow in a contest. However, on 28 March 1728, the Commons awarded the seat to his opponent, Daniel Campbell, on the merits of the return.
The Stewart Memorial Fountain, celebrating the establishment of the Loch Katrine and Milngavie waterworks Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts Monument at Kelvingrove Park Kelvingrove contains a bandstand, skatepark, bowling and croquet greens, and various statues and monuments. The largest monument is the Stewart Memorial Fountain , built to commemorate Lord Provost Robert Stewart (1851–1854) and his achievement of providing the city with fresh water from Loch Katrine. The fountain was built in 1872 to a design by James Sellars, who later designed the nearby St. Luke's Orthodox Cathedral and Kelvinside Academy. It is built of granite, sandstone, marble and bronze, features imagery of the Trossachs, and is topped by a figure of Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake.
He was dean of guild in 1705 and in 1706 was elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh in succession to Sir Patrick Johnston at Michaelmas 1706.List of Lord Provosts of Edinburgh: Edinburgh City Chambers Johnston rather than McClellan was the broker of the Act of Union 1707, but McClellan, as a major investor in the Company of Scotland, received compensation for his losses in the company under the terms of agreement of the Act of Union. McLellan was burgess of Perth in 1708, and at the 1708 British general election, was returned as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh. He was given a detailed set of instructions from his constituents and was voted £300 for expenses in London.
Edinburgh: Leith pp. 29–30 According to Robert Chambers writing in 1824, "The body was stolen from the gallows, as was supposed, by his friends, and it was never known what had become of it, till more than a century after, when, in removing the hearth-stone of a cottage in Dairy Park, near Edinburgh, a human skeleton was found, with the remains of a pistol near the situation of the neck. No doubt was entertained that these were the remains of Chiesly," Five years later in 1694, Robert Chieslie, John's brother, served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh.History of Edinburgh from its Foundation to the Present Time in 9 Books: Book 3 p.
Historically the provost was the chief magistrate or convener of a Scottish burgh council, the equivalent of a mayor in other parts of the English-speaking world. Previous to the enactment of the Town Councils (Scotland) Act 1900 various titles were used in different burghs, but the legislation standardised the name of the governing body as “the provost, magistrates, and councillors” of the burgh. After the re-organisation of local government in Scotland in 1975, the title of Lord Provost was reserved to Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, while other district councils could choose the title to be used by the convener; in 1994 twenty-two councils had provosts.Whitakers Concise Almanack 1995, London, 1994.
By the time of Bell's death in 1942, the company's profits were in excess of £100,000 per annum. Later in his life, Bell saved the Perth linen industry by financially backing the one remaining company, John Shields and Co. intervening at the request of the Lord Provost Robert Nimmo. The apparent and imminent closure of this company came as a shock to the local council, and the loss of 300 jobs would have been a blow to the city,. For his contribution Bell receiving the Freedom of Perth, and the workers of the company presented him with a parchment tribute as a thanks for his part in turning the company into a successful and growing enterprise.
In June 2008, Lord Provost Denis Agnew, joined local schoolchildren and community groups to celebrate the completion of a £163,000 project to improve seven kilometres of towpath on the Forth & Clyde Canal from Bowling Harbour to Whitecrook in Clydebank. In 2007, Bowling welcomed the "Vital Spark", one of only five surviving Clyde puffers, and the first of its kind to sail into Bowling Harbour for more than 40 years. The Forth & Clyde Canal is regarded as the birthplace of the puffers, which had to be small enough to negotiate the Crinan Canal. The archetypal puffer, the Vital Spark, appeared in the "Para Handy" books by Neil Munro and two television series of the same name.
Born in Glasgow in 1851, Stevenson made his fortune in the shipbroking and coal exportation industries before being elected to the City Council as a Liberal in 1882. Whilst on the Council, he was responsible for the Sunday-opening of the City's museums and galleries in 1898, the establishment of free branch libraries in 1899 and the introduction of a municipal telephone service in 1900. He was elected Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1911 until 1914, at which point he was awarded an honorary LL.D. by the University of Glasgow, and was created a Baronet, of Cleveden, Kelvinside, in the County of the City of Glasgow. He unsuccessfully contested the Partick seat at the 1922 General Election.
He was also very popular amongst the judiciary and military, painting a number of Scottish generals or clan chiefs due to his skills in painting tartans and robes. He was for several years an art teacher at Melville College Edinburgh where he was extremely popular for his patience and kindness. The following are amongst some of his many sitters and patrons over the years up until his sudden death from a heart attack in 1981: Lord Napier of Thirlestane Castle, Alastair Dunnett (editor of The Scotsman), Lord Provost John Millar, Sir Isaac Wolfston, Lord Rosebury, General Sir Henry Leask and The Earl of Inchcape. Cameron was also called upon to restore or copy a large number of old master paintings from all over Scotland.
The influential Scottish minister and author the Reverend Dr. Maxwell Nicholson lived at 3 Regent Terrace for most of his later life until 1874. The architect Duncan Menzies lived at 31 Regent Terrace from about 1891-1910..Sir James Puckering Gibson 1st Baronet of Regent Terrace was Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1906 to 1909 and represented Edinburgh East in the House of Commons as a Liberal between 1909 and 1912. He lived at 33 Regent Terrace from 1880 and was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 23 November 1909.The Baronetage of England, Ireland, Nova Scotia, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Leigh Rayment Accessed 2009-09-07 Sir James had no children so when he died in 1812 his title became extinct.
He received criticism for spending rather freely on public receptions and events during his tenure as Lord Provost, and was defeated from the ward in the municipal elections in early November 1902. Chisholm was noted for a baronetcy in the November 1902 Birthday Honours list, and was created a baronet, of Belhaven Terrace in the Parish of Govan in the County of the City of Glasgow, and of St John's Mount, Dunblane, in the Parish of Dunblane in the County of Perth, on 28 November 1902. He received the honorary Doctor of Laws (DLL) from the University of Glasgow in June 1901, and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Lanarkshire in September 1901. He died in September 1923, aged 87, at which time the title became extinct.
The body of Wilson was cut down against the wishes of the mob, and the ensuing riot was such that the hangman had to be placed in protective custody. As the situation worsened, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, for fear of an attempt to rescue the victims, instructed Captain Porteous to call out the entire guard and to furnish them with powder and shot. After the execution the mob became violent and began to stone the City Guard. Accounts of events are confused, but what is certain is that Captain Porteous instructed his men to fire above the heads of the crowd but, in so doing, they shot and wounded people in the windows of the high tenement buildings opposite.
Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell (1493 – 9 July 1546) was a member of the Council of Regency (1536) of the Kingdom of Scotland, Regent of the Isle of Arran and like his father before him patriarch of the House of Maxwell/Clan Maxwell. A distinguished Scottish nobleman, politician, soldier and in 1513 Lord High Admiral, Lord Maxwell was a member of James V of Scotland's royal council and served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1524, 1527 and 1535. He was also an Extraordinary Lord of Session in 1533. In 1537, he was one of the ambassadors sent to the French Court to negotiate the marriage of James to Mary of Guise, whom he espoused as proxy for the King.
In November 1963, the Dundee Sub-Works Committee asked the Town Clerk to negotiate for the purchase of 12 acres of ground at Craigie Home Farm south as a site for a new secondary school. The contract was won by Charles Gray (Builders) at a total cost of £935,000. Craigie High School first opened its doors to pupils on 20 August 1970, although some building work continued until the official opening on 11 December 1970 by Sir Garnet Wilson, former Lord Provost of Dundee and whom the street entrance of the school, Garnet Terrace, was named for. When opened, the school was considered a major step forward in improving education in Dundee due it being the first purpose built comprehensive school in the city.
The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582, did not begin to teach medical topics until the early 18th century, with the appointment of Robert Eliot as Professor of Anatomy. John Monro, an Edinburgh surgeon, who had obtained his medical degree at Leiden University in Holland, returned to Edinburgh with a view to setting up a medical school within the university and with an associated teaching hospital on the Leiden model. With the local support of Lord Provost George Drummond, and national support from the Earl of Ilay, Monro saw his ambition fulfilled starting with the appointment of his son, Alexander Monro primus, as Professor of Anatomy in 1719. Monro at first taught extra-murally at Surgeons Hall moving his classes to the university in 1725.
He entered the university, studying divinity, where he distinguished himself, graduating, as the records show, in 1658 under Thomas Crawford. Shortly afterward he became chaplain and tutor in the family of Sir James Stuart of Coltness and Goodtrees, then Lord Provost of Edinburgh. In 1661, being then in his twenty-first year, he was licensed by the Presbytery of Edinburgh and afterward preached several times with much success. A sermon which he delivered in the High Church, Edinburgh, in September 1662, in which he declared that "the church of Scotland had been persecuted by an Ahab on the throne, a Haman in the state, and a Judas in the church," gave such offence that a party of horse was sent to apprehend him.
As shipping activity increased, larger and more numerous vessels required to berth in Glasgow and it was obvious that they could not be accommodated in the central area. In 1872 the Clyde Commissioners started work on a new dock at Stobcross, on the north shore of the Clyde to the west of the city. The new dock was formally opened on 18 September 1877 by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, and he announced that by permission of Queen Victoria the new dock was to be known as The Queen's Dock. The new facility was obviously going to make considerable changes to commodity flows in Glasgow, and the North British Railway set about constructing a branch line to serve the dock.
The Glasgow Police Act 1800 was an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, which established a professional police force for the city of Glasgow. Under the Act, this police force was placed under the control of the Lord Provost, three magistrates and nine elected commissioners. The force was supported financially by a rate levied by the City Council on houses and businesses; the lack of such a levy had frustrated the previous attempt at having a professional police presence in the city. The Act was a forerunner of similar Acts of Parliament establishing police forces in other Scottish cities and burghs, culminating in the Policing of Towns (Scotland) Act 1850 and the General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act 1862.
The unveiling of a Blue Plaque in 2015 in memory of John Barlow on his former home at 1 Pilrig Street, Edinburgh, in the presence of - from left to right - the Lord Provost, The Rt Hon Donald Wilson, John Barlow's two great-grandchildren, Antony and Nicholas Barlow, Professor Brendan Corcoran from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh In 1851 he met Eliza Nicholson (1813–1894) of Whitehaven whom he married on New Year's Day that year and they moved into No. 1 Pilrig Street. They had three children, Alfred (1851–7), Mary (1853–1899) and John Henry (1855–1924). He contracted meningitis and died from acute spinal infection at the age of 40 on 29 January 1856. Broughton Spurtle.
Switching on the newly-restored Ross Fountain in West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh on 8 July 2018 Water was turned off in 2008 and it was closed again from July 2017 for further restoration work undertaken by Lost Art Limited of Wigan on behalf of The Ross Development Trust, costing 1.9 million pounds.New Colour Palette Unveiled for the Ross Fountain, Ross Development Trust website On 8 July 2018, it was re-inaugurated by Lord Provost Frank Ross and others, including the Head of Mission at the French Consulate in Edinburgh Emmanuel Cocher.Ross Fountain springs back to life following £1.9m renovation The fountain is now painted in turquoise, brown and gold. According to the organisers, the paintwork should last for at least 20 years.
On 22 April 2006, a memorial stone to Lady Dunnett was laid by her grandchildren, Hal and Bella Dunnett, alongside those for Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott in the Makars' Court in Lady Stair's Close on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh was in attendance, and gave a speech, as did the Edinburgh Makar (Valerie Gillies), and the Ross Herald (Charles Burnett). The initiative to lay the stone, and the main funding for it, came from the members of the Dorothy Dunnett Society. The Stone contains Dorothy Dunnett's name, her coat of arms, and a brief quote from one of her books "Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past".
This cites An Account of the Life and Character of A. A., by A. Henderson (1810). In 1764 he became private tutor to Alexander Kincaid, afterwards Lord Provost of Edinburgh, by whose influence he was appointed in 1768 to the rectorship of the High School on the retirement of Mr Matheson, whose substitute he had been for some time before. From this period he devoted himself entirely to the duties of his office and to the preparation of his numerous works on classical literature. His popularity and his success as a teacher are strikingly illustrated by the great increase in the number of his pupils, many of whom subsequently became distinguished men, among them being Walter Scott, Lord Brougham and Francis Jeffrey.
Others in the frame for Labour were former teacher and current Councillor Irene Graham; voluntary sector worker Archie Graham, who is also the husband of Glasgow Pollok MSP Johann Lamont; and Manjinder Singh Shergill, a business analyst with ScottishPower. Maire Whitehead, a previous candidate in Cathcart and a former Primary School Headteacher was chosen by the SNP as their candidate on the same day as Gordon was selected by Labour. She defeated Bill Kidd, twice a candidate elsewhere in Glasgow and the SNP Trade Union Group organiser and Tommy Tonner, a Glasgow-based consultant. The Scottish Socialist Party chose Ronnie Stevenson; the Liberal Democrats, Arthur Sanderson; and former Lord Provost of Glasgow Pat Lally, who stood as an independent in the seat in 2003, fought it once again.
A plaque marks the spot where the lynching of Porteous took place The events in Edinburgh heightened the sense of alarm in London, where the government was concerned about the threat to its management of Scotland. It was thought by Walpole, Queen Caroline and the Duke of Newcastle that Porteous had been unnecessarily sacrificed and there were even rumours that the conspiracy had involved the local city magistrates. In February 1737 a parliamentary inquiry was held; the House of Lords initially proposed the disbanding of the town guard and removal of Netherbow Port, but subsequently dropped these suggestions. Eventually the only punishments enforced were a £2,000 fine imposed on the city (used to support Porteous' widow) and the disbarment from all offices of the then Lord Provost Alexander Wilson.
The events in Edinburgh heightened the sense of alarm in London, where the government was concerned about the threat to its management of Scotland. It was thought by Walpole, Queen Caroline and the Duke of Newcastle that Porteous had been unnecessarily sacrificed and there were even rumours that the conspiracy had involved the local city magistrates. Various Opposition proposals to disband the city guard and debar the Lord Provost were put forward, and these were the subject of much debate – the Scottish MPs and the government strongly opposed these proposals for constitutional reasons, and nothing was ever done. Porteous's grave It was variously thought that Porteous' murder was carried out by friends of those who had been shot and killed, revenge by the smugglers, a Jacobite plot, or even a conspiracy by Presbyterian extremists.
Edinburgh leaps over it with > bridges: the inhabitants are morally and geographically the lower orders. > They keep to their own quarters, and seldom come up to the light of day. > Many an Edinburgh man has never set his foot in the street: the condition of > the inhabitants is as little known to respectable Edinburgh as are the > habits of moles, earth worms and the mining population. The people of the > Cowgate seldom visit the upper streets. Following the publication of Dr. Henry Littlejohn's Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the City of Edinburgh in 1865, major street improvements were carried out in the Old Town under Lord Provost William Chambers, and the Edinburgh City Improvement Act of 1867 initiated the transformation of the area into the predominantly Victorian Old Town seen today.
On 29 April 2005 the Scotland Malawi Partnership held a 'Shaping the Partnership' consultative conference at the University of Strathclyde, attended by approximately 100 people - representatives of NGOs, universities, small charities, hospitals and individuals with an interest in Malawi. Guests heard speeches from Ms Patricia Ferguson MSP, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport; The Lord Provost of Glasgow; Professor David Rubadiri, Vice Chancellor of the University of Malawi; Dr Peter West and the Rev Howard Matiya Nkhoma, General Secretary of the Livingstonia Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP). The proposed structure and remit of the Partnership were decided upon.The Scotland – Malawi Partnership, Malawi Update, June, 2005 Shortly after this meeting, an Interim Board was formed, with the Rev Prof Ken Ross as the Chair and Dr Peter West as the Vice Chair.
The NLB was formed by Act of Parliament in 1786 as the Commissioners of Northern Light Houses, largely at the urging of the lawyer and politician George Dempster ("Honest George"), to oversee the construction and operation of four Scottish lighthouses: Kinnaird Head, North Ronaldsay, Scalpay and Mull of Kintyre, for which they were empowered to borrow up to £1,200. Until then, the only major lighthouse in Scotland was the coal brazier mounted on the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth, together with some smaller lights in the Firths of the Tay and Clyde. None of the major passages around Scotland, which led through dangerous narrows, were marked. The commissioners, whose first president was the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Sir James Hunter-Blair, advertised for building estimates, but there were no takers.
Fettes College main building Fettes College from the south-east To perpetuate the memory of his only son William, who had predeceased him in 1815, Sir William Fettes (1750–1836), a former Lord Provost of Edinburgh and a wealthy city merchant, bequeathed the then very large sum of £166,000 to be set aside for the education of poor children and orphans. After his death the bequest was invested, and the accumulated sum was then used to acquire the 350 acres of land, to build the main building and to found the school in 1870. Fettes College opened with 53 pupils (40 were Foundation Scholars with 11 others boarding and two day pupils). Following serious fires, the swimming baths were rebuilt in 1890 and the chemistry laboratory was rebuilt in 1897.
Bust of Monro primus in Old College, University of Edinburgh The grave of Alexander Monro primus, Greyfriars Kirkyard Alexander Monro primus (19 September 169710 July 1767) was a Scottish surgeon and anatomist. His father, the surgeon John Monro, had been a prime mover in the foundation of the Edinburgh Medical School and had arranged Alexander's education in the hope that his son might become the first Professor of Anatomy in the new university medical school. After medical studies in Edinburgh, London, Paris and Leiden, Alexander Monro returned to Edinburgh, and pursued a career as a surgeon and anatomy teacher. With the support of his father and the patronage of the Edinburgh Lord Provost George Drummond, Alexander Monro was appointed foundation Professor of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh.
The Hutchisons had long-standing and successful trade connections in the port town of Leith and had risen to prominence as a result of their success. Robert Hutchison, Thomas's heir responsible for completing the castle, was a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and an expert in arboriculture, leaving the wine trade behind. Two of his sons were knighted for their contributions to the realm: Sir Robert Hutchison, First Baronet of Thurle in Streatly in the County of Berkshire, a respected medical authority and the President of the Royal College of Physicians and Sir Thomas Hutchison, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, First Baronet of Hardiston in the County of Kinross, who held the office from 1921–1923. Robert's niece was the renowned Arctic explorer and botanist Isobel Wylie Hutchison.
The Lord Provost of Glasgow, Mr Peter Meldrum, announcing the award of the 1964 St Mungo Prize "for the person who has done most in the past three years for Glasgow by making it more beautiful, healthy, or more honoured", was reported to have said: "Mr Allan had become a minister, friend, and adviser not only to his parishioners but to many others, no matter their religious persuasion ... He had travelled extensively and carried a strong and favourable impression of Glasgow abroad, so that his church became the meeting place for church leaders from all over the world. Mr Allan had contributed to the cultural and educational development of the city in a worthy and honourable way."Glasgow Herald 12 December 1964, p.6: 'Tom Allan awarded St Mungo Medal - A Better Image for Glasgow'.
Rebakah (Beka) Cooper: Beka is a 16-year-old girl with a very strong sense of justice; her love for the people of the Lower City she grew up in leads her to request a placement there, a district most Dogs would rather avoid. Beka has the ability to hear the voices of the restless spirits that ride the backs of pigeons, and to hear the voices that drift into the city's dust spinners. Because of her special abilities and her relationship and training with the Lord Provost, Beka begins the story with a rather arrogant attitude, assuming she will be promoted to full Dog faster than any Puppy in history. Beka also is very shy around strangers and has trouble with speaking to them especially in front of an audience.
Many Highland clans still supported the Jacobite cause, both Catholic and Protestant, and Charles hoped for a warm welcome from these clans to start an insurgency by Jacobites throughout Britain. He raised his father's standard at Glenfinnan and gathered a force large enough to enable him to march on Edinburgh. Lord Provost Archibald Stewart controlled the city, which quickly surrendered. Allan Ramsay painted a portrait of Charles while he was in Edinburgh, which survived in the collection of the Earl of Wemyss at Gosford House and, , was on display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Jacobite 1745 flag On 21 September 1745, Charles defeated the only government army in Scotland at the Battle of Prestonpans, led by General Sir John Cope, and their disastrous defence against the Jacobites is immortalised in the song "Johnnie Cope".
Following retirement, Weir fell ill in 1670, and from his sick-bed began to confess to a secret life of crime and vice. The Lord Provost initially found the confession implausible and took no action, but eventually Weir and his spinster sister, Jean Weir (known to her friends as 'Grizel'), were taken to the Edinburgh Tolbooth for interrogation. Major Weir, now in his seventies, continued to expand on his confession and Grizel, having seemingly entirely lost her wits, gave an even more exaggerated history of witchcraft, sorcery and vice. She related how many years before a stranger had called in a "fiery" coach to take her brother to Dalkeith and how during the short trip another man had given him "supernatural intelligence" (Chambers) of the Scots' defeat at Worcester that same day.
During the 1930s, Glasgow was the main base of the Independent Labour Party. Towards the end of the twentieth century, it became a centre of the struggle against the poll tax; which was introduced in Scotland a whole year before the rest of the United Kingdom and also served as the main base of the Scottish Socialist Party, another left-wing political party in Scotland. The city has not had a Conservative MP since the 1982 Hillhead by-election, when the SDP took the seat, which was in Glasgow's most affluent area. The fortunes of the Conservative Party continued to decline into the twenty-first century, winning only one of the 79 councillors on Glasgow City Council in 2012, despite having been the controlling party (as the Progressives) from 1969 to 1972 when Sir Donald Liddle was the last non- Labour Lord Provost.
Of Cowan's sons, Charles Cowan (1801–1889) was Member of Parliament for the city 1847-1852, Alexander Cowan (1804-1831), died young leaving a volume of poetry entitled the Remains of Alexander Cowan. Remains of Alexander Cowan: Consisting of His Verses and Extracts From His Correspondence and Journals, Thomas Constable 1839, James Cowan (1816-1896) served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1872 to 1874, and as Member of Parliament for the city from 1874 to 1882, and his daughter Lucia Anne married the publisher Thomas Constable, son of Archibald Constable. Alexander’s great grandson and namesake Alexander Cowan FRSE (1863-1943) was a papermaker, as were most descendants, but also a noted amateur botanist, specialising in alpine plants. Another great grandson, Robert Craig Cowan (1865-1937) was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
The T-shirt is banned in New Zealand, a handful of fans have faced court appearances and fines for wearing the shirt in public, and some band members themselves attracted a certain amount of hostile attention when they wore similar "I Love Satan" shirts to the Vatican. Alex Mosson, the Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1999 to 2003, called the shirts (and by implication the band) "sick and offensive". The band obviously approved, using the quote on the back cover of the 2005 DVD Peace Through Superior Firepower. The infamous "Vestal Masturbation" T-shirt design In 1998, Dani began his long-running "Dani's Inferno" column for Metal Hammer, and the band appeared in the BBC documentary series Living with the Enemy (on tour with a fan and his disapproving mother and sister) and released its third studio album, Cruelty and the Beast.
Map contrasting the area comprising Midlothian council (dark blue) within the historic county of Midlothian (light blue). The historic county of Midlothian remains a lieutenancy area, excluding the city of Edinburgh where lieutenancy functions are held by the Lord Provost and a registration county for which purposes Edinburgh is included. Midlothian County Council ceased to exist in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 with Midlothian becoming a district and then a unitary council area in 1996. Consequent boundary changes removed the burgh of Musselburgh and the parish of Inveresk (which included the villages of Inveresk, Wallyford and Whitecraig) to East Lothian; the Calders (East Calder, Midcalder and West Calder) and the Midlothian part of Livingston to West Lothian; Heriot and Stow parishes to the Ettrick and Lauderdale district of the Scottish Borders, and Currie, Balerno, Ratho and Newbridge to Edinburgh.
The old North Bridge, from the west, with Calton Hill in the background, in 1829 The first stone of the original bridge was laid on 21 October 1763 by the Lord Provost, George Drummond, a driving force behind the modernisation of Edinburgh. In that year, the North Loch, which separates the New from the Old Town, was drained, and the mud removed. But, though the erection of the bridge was resolved upon at that time, the contract for building the bridge was not signed till 21 August 1765. The parties to this contract were the town council of Edinburgh, and William Mylne, architect, brother to Robert Mylne. The sum agreed for was £10,140; the work was to be completed before Martinmas (11 November) 1769, and Mylne was to guarantee the works for a period of ten years.
Both worked predominately in the north-east around their home city, but also painted many of the figures of early-Enlightenment Edinburgh. Alexander's best known work included the portrait of George Drummond the Lord Provost of Edinburgh (1756), who had been responsible for the creation of the New Town in Edinburgh and the Royal Infirmary, which is shown in the background of the painting. Mosman's work included his portrait of John Campbell of the Bank (1749), who was chief cashier of the Royal Bank of Scotland and a Whig, but who is depicted in the recently forbidden Highland dress. Because of his Jacobite sympathies Alexander was forced to leave for the continent after the rebellion of 1745, and in Rome he made a living painting the Jacobite expatriates who congregated there, before his return a few years later.
In 1697, Thomas Aikenhead, an 18-year-old student, became the last person in Scotland to be executed for the crime of blasphemy after a fellow student reported that he had blasphemed against God outside the Tron Kirk. Aikenhead was prosecuted for saying "I wish I were in that place Ezra calls hell so I could warm myself" as he walked by the kirk on his way back from a night of drinking with some classmates.Thomas Aikenhead The baptisms and marriages of many Edinburgh luminaries took place in the Tron, one being the marriage of the famous jurist John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall on 21 January 1669, to Janet (1652–1686), daughter of Sir Andrew Ramsay, Lord Abbotshall, 1st Baronet, and the first Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and a Senator of the College of Justice (d.1688). On 25 April 1694 Helen (d.
The story is told in the form of a series of journal entries made by Beka Cooper as she trains to become a Provosts Dog, a nickname for the police men and women in the employ of the Lord Provost of Tortall, with a prelude taken from Eleni Cooper's diary in which she relates Beka's story to her son George. Beka is also the surrogate daughter of the Provost, having helped him capture a band of dangerous criminals when she was only 8 years old. Lord Gershom adopts her, her mother, and her brothers and sisters from the "scummer" life of Mutt Piddle Lane, where the very poor live. Beka begins her training assigned as a Puppy, or a Dog in his or her first year of training, to two revered senior Dogs in the Lower City: Clary Goodwin and Mattes Tunstall.
A new jail to be built on Calton Hill had also been promoted at this time and a new bridge would make access more suitable. Inscription on the south side of Regent Bridge In 1813, Sir John Marjoribanks, the then Lord Provost of Edinburgh, revived a plan to build a jail on the slopes of Calton Hill.Marjoribanks,Roger (2014) "Edinburgh Portrait, Sir John Marjoribanks , Bart, MP (1763–1833)" The Book of the Edinburgh Club, Volume 10, Pp 151-156, In order to access this, open up the slopes of Calton Hill to development and shorten the road to East Lothian and England, he presented the plan to build Regent Bridge to the City magistrates on 1 March 1814 with a projected cost of about £20,000 and backed up by a feasibility study by the engineer Robert Stevenson.Marjoribanks, Roger.
George was the father of four of Glasgow's most distinguished citizens: George Buchanan of Moss and Auchentoshan (maltman and Glasgow city treasurer and bailie), Andrew Buchanan of Drumpellier (Tobacco Lord and Lord Provost of Glasgow), Archibald Buchanan of Silverbanks and Auchentortie (Tobacco Lord) and Neil Buchanan of Hillington (Tobacco Lord and Member of Parliament for Glasgow district of burghs).Buchanan, Arthur William Patrick (1929) "Later Leaves of the Buchanan Book," p223, E. GarandBuchanan, Andrew Hamilton and Buchanan, Neal Harkness (1995) "Andrew Buchanan of Chingford 1807–1877," p223, Hazard Press Ltd, Christchurch These four sons were among the founding members of the charity, The Buchanan Society of Glasgow. The full scope of Buchanan Covenanters is unknown; however, # Alexander Buchanan, Buchlivie, Covenanter, was sent from Tollbooth, 12 Dec 1678, on St. Michael of Scarborough, to Themes for on forwarding to the American plantations.
In 1700 Johnstone became Lord Provost of Edinburgh in succession to Sir George Home of Kello. It was not allowed for anyone to serve for more than two consecutive years as Provost and in 1702 he was succeeded by Hugh Cunningham of Bonnington. He was knighted before 1702. In 1702, he was elected Burgh Commissioner for Edinburgh. He became a member of the Scottish Privy Council from 1702 to 1704. In 1704 he became Provost again for two years and was also Privy Counseller again for two years. He was appointed to the Commission for union with England in 1706, as a gesture towards the capital’s governing body. He managed to obtain important concessions for Edinburgh, such as the continuation of the ale duty; and the majority of the council was persuaded to support union with England.
The emblems represent miracles supposed to have been performed by Mungo and are listed in the traditional rhyme: ::::Here's the bird that never flew ::::Here's the tree that never grew ::::Here's the bell that never rang ::::Here's the fish that never swam St Mungo is also said to have preached a sermon containing the words Lord, Let Glasgow flourish by the preaching of the word and the praising of thy name. This was abbreviated to "Let Glasgow Flourish" and adopted as the city's motto. In 1450, John Stewart, the first Lord Provost of Glasgow, left an endowment so that a "St Mungo's Bell" could be made and tolled throughout the city so that the citizens would pray for his soul. A new bell was purchased by the magistrates in 1641 and that bell is still on display in the People's Palace Museum, near Glasgow Green.
The Convention issued a pamphlet entitled Proposals for carrying on certain Public Works in the City of Edinburgh, believed to have been authored by the classical scholar Sir Gilbert Elliot and heavily influenced by the ideas of Lord Provost George Drummond. Elliot described the existing town as follows, > Placed upon a ridge of a hill, it admits but of one good street, running > from east to west, and even this is tolerably accessible only from one > quarter. The narrow lanes leading to the north and south, by reason of their > steepness, narrowness and dirtiness, can only be considered as so many > unavoidable nuisances. Confined by the small compass of the walls, and the > narrow limits of the royalty, which scarcely extends beyond the walls, the > houses stand more crowded than in any other town in Europe, and are built to > a height that is almost incredible.
Plan for the New Town by James Craig (1768) Following on from his work in 1765, Craig entered the competition to plan the New Town of Edinburgh in 1766 through which he won his fame and reputation as an architect. He spent the next fifteen years working on plans and buildings for the New Town, and presented two of these in the portrait painting David Allan made in 1781; a New Town plan with a central circus, and the Royal College of Physicians Hall with proposed wings to either side. Plans for a New Town, to ease overcrowding in the medieval Royal burgh of Edinburgh, had been suggested since the late 17th century. However, it was not until the middle of the 18th century that Lord Provost George Drummond (1688–1766) succeeded in extending the town boundary to encompass the fields to the north of the Nor Loch.
The subscription list was swiftly filled, and the necessary Act of Parliament was secured on 12 April 1770.George Thomson, The Monkland Canal - a Sketch of the Early History, originally written in 1945, published by Monkland Library Services Department, 1984, The Lord Provost was refunded "£65 as half of his charges in going to and coming from London anent obtaining the Act of Parliament ... the other half of such expense being chargeable on the proprietors of the Monkland Canal".Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow, Vol 7, p 323, quoted in Thomson The Act allowed the proprietors to raise £10,000 by issuing shares, and an additional £5,000 if necessary. Water for the canal was to be extracted from Frankfield Loch, Hogganfield Loch, and any other streams or lochs within of the proposed route which were not already supplying the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Before Renton existed in its current form Robert the Bruce lived and died at the Manor of Cardross, the exact location of which is uncertain, but may have been near or in what is now Renton, although it was probably in Cardross Parish.GWS Barrow, 'Robert the Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland' The writer Tobias Smollett was born in Dalquhurn House in what is now Renton in 1721 and is commemorated by Smollett Monument in the village', erected by his cousin three years after the author's death in Italy in 1771. MP and Lord Provost Duncan McLaren was born in Renton, as was MP in, and speaker of, the Canadian House of Commons, James Allison Glen and author Jane Duncan. Professional footballers Alex Jackson, Andy Duncan, John O'Hare, Jack Ashurst, and James Kelly all originated in Renton, as did boxer Skeets Gallacher, after whom Gallacher Way is named.
At one time he was a candidate for the Speaker's Chair in the House of Commons.Collins's Peerage of England – Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical. By Arthur Collins Published by Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, 1812 He was made a Lord of the Admiralty in 1756, a position he held until his resignation in support of William Pitt in April 1757, and to which he was reinstated in June with Pitt's return to officeThe Scottish Nation: Or The Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland By William Anderson Published by Fullarton, 1862 In 1752, supported by Edinburgh's Lord Provost George Drummond, he authored a pamphlet entitled Proposals for carrying on certain Public Works in the City of Edinburgh. The advocated improvements were fully implemented by the Town Council and shaped the physical character of the city, as still seen to this day.
The region of Małopolska, to which the Games were jointly awarded, declared itself an LGBT-free zone in 2019. In August 2020, he Lord Provost of Edinburgh Frank Ross wrote to Kraków's mayor Jacek Majchrowski to confirm the city's opposition to homophobia after calls for a "serious rethink" of the two cities' twinning relationship. In September 2020, a group of European politicians (including Liz Barker, a member of the House of Lords and Terry Reintke and Marc Angel, two MEPs) published a letter addressed to the European Olympic Committees in which they demanded LGBT rights be respected and suggested that the Games should be held in a different location due to the Małopolska region's status. Flemish sports minister Ben Weyts said the region's LGBT-free zone declaration is "incompatible with the values of the Olympic Charter" and that Olympic Committees should not support bids from such regions.
Club swimmers trained in Barcelona, Spain, Eger, Hungary, Castres, France, Fort Lauderdale, USA, Bühl (Baden), Germany and Reykjavík, Iceland. Between 2005 and 2013, Warrender won the top club award most years at the Scottish National Age Group Championships, several times won the top club award at the Scottish National Short Course and Open Championships and with swimmers were regularly winning medals at Scottish and British national meets. Reception by Lord Provost and Council of the City of Edinburgh in the City Chambers to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of Warrender Baths Club on 11 May 2013At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Fiona Booth from Warrender swam for Scotland.(2006)Biography, Fiona Booth Athletes at the Melbourne 2006 XV111 Commonwealth Games, Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Corporation, Retrieved 26 August 2013 Lewis Smith won gold at the 2008 Tri-Nations Swimming Contest with France and Canada in Quebec.
This undertaking was designed by Mr. Thomas Telford and Mr. Baird, > who estimated the cost at £240,468, 17s. 2d.; of which sum £198,650 was > subscribed before going to parliament. The first act of parliament ... is > entitled, 'An Act for making and maintaining a navigable Canal from the > Lothian Road, near the city of Edinburgh, to join the Forth and Clyde > Navigation near Falkirk, in the county of Stirling.' The company of > proprietors consisted, at the time the first act was obtained, of three > hundred and eighty-four persons, amongst whom were the Lord Provost of > Edinburgh, Sir William Forbes, Sir John Hay, and Sir John Marjoribanks, who > were incorporated by the name of "The Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal > Company," with power to raise £240,500, in four thousand eight hundred and > ten shares, of £50 each, and a further sum of £50,000, either among > themselves, by the admission of new subscribers, or on mortgage of the > undertaking.
He was concerned in the removal of the young king James V from Stirling to Edinburgh, 26 July 1524; and on 18 August made lord Provost of Edinburgh; he then took part in the scheme for the king's nominal assumption of the government in November, with the advice of the King's mother. He was then appointed as one of the council to assist her in the government. The queen's divorce from Angus changed the attitude of Maxwell as well as other nobles towards her; and on the king attaining his majority, fourteen years, 21 June 1526, Maxwell became one of the council appointed to assist Angus in the guardianship of the king and management of affairs, he was in company with the king at the Battle of Melrose on 25 July, when an unsuccessful attempt was made by Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch to get possession of him. The same year he was appointed steward of Kirkcudbright and keeper of Thrieve.
His sealed tomb stands in the north section of the churchyard, notable as the only sealed tomb in the churchyard. The Dugald Stewart Monument erected to him on the south-west edge of Calton Hill is just out of sight from the tomb. Hugh William Williams (1773–1829), a watercolorist and landscape artist, was known as "Grecian Williams" for his foreign studies. It was allegedly Williams who coined the term "the modern Athens" in reference to Edinburgh, therefore his resting place, with Edinburgh's "Acropolis" (Calton Hill) standing to the right, is fittingly appropriate. Mausoleum of Sir William Fettes Sir William Fettes (1750–1836), a former merchant on the High Street, served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh in the early 19th century. His bequests funded the building of Fettes College (opened 1870). The monument is a large sandstone mausoleum with gilded, grey marble tablets, inscribed: George Chalmers (1773–1836) was a master plumber and founder of Chalmers Hospital. He had lived at 208 Canongate.
Apart from his Shawfield business interests, White was also deputy chairman of the Glasgow and South Western Railway (although the railway lines which served the Shawfield works were operated by the Clydesdale Junction Railway/ Caledonian Railway), was a director of the Merchants' House of Glasgow, financed the construction of the elaborate Christian Institute building in the city's Bothwell Street,Christian Institute (Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, Postcards Collection), The Glasgow StoryRemembering The Christian Institute - one of the lost gothic gems of Glasgow Glasgow Live, 12 May 2019 and at various times was chairman of the Glasgow Royal Exchange, the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and the National Bible Society of Scotland. He was a member of the Free Church of Scotland and a Liberal in politics. Upon his death in 1884 aged 72 at Overtoun House, the Lord Provost of Glasgow remarked that White was "a gentleman who has long occupied a foremost place among the citizens of Glasgow".
At the outbreak of the Glorious Revolution at the end of 1688, Gordon's uncle Alexander was elected Lord Provost of Aberdeen and was a staunch supporter of the new king, serving as provost until 1690. Gordon was likewise a devout Presbyterian, and had his share in the political life of Aberdeen: he was a councillor of the burgh from 1705 to 1709, and served himself as provost from 1706 to 1708. He was the first to sign a loyal address from the council to Queen Anne upon the repulse of the Jacobite attempt at landing in the Firth of Forth. At the 1708 British general election Gordon was returned in a contest as Member of Parliament for the new constituency of Aberdeen Burghs and received instruction from his council on matters of local interest, and was urged to protect the interests of the Kirk and to support any act for imposing a subsidy to defray the cost of conducting the war against the French.
Brock worked for Rob Gibson MSP before being elected as a SNP Councillor on the City of Edinburgh Council for the Leith Walk ward in 2007 where she topped the poll with 2,550 first preferences. She was re-elected in the 2012 elections, again topping the poll with 1,735 first preferences, and subsequently became the Deputy Lord Provost of Edinburgh as the SNP and the Scottish Labour Party formed an arrangement to run the Council. She was elected as MP for Edinburgh North and Leith in 2015 as part of the SNP landslide receiving 23,742 votes (a 40.9% share), defeating the Labour Party MP, Mark Lazarowicz, by 5,597 votes and a majority of 9.6%. Brock was one of several SNP MPs who took their parliamentary oaths in both Gaelic and English. She was re-elected MP for the same constituency in 2017 with 19,243 votes (34% share) and a 1,625 (2.9%) vote majority over the second placed Labour candidate.
The skirmish known as Cleanse the Causeway, or Clear the Causeway, took place in the High Street of Edinburgh, Scotland, on 30 April 1520, between rivals James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran, chief of Clan Hamilton, and Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, chief of Clan Douglas. The skirmish was the result of enmity between the House of Hamilton and the "Red" Angus line of the House of Douglas, both powerful noble families jealous of each other's influence over King James V. The Hamiltons, led by Sir Patrick Hamilton of Kincavil, half-brother of the Earl of Arran, and Sir James Hamilton of Finnart, the earl's bastard son, attempted to apprehend the Earl of Angus, and prompted a street fight. The Earl of Arran had become Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1517. In a dispute over the sale of a cargo of timber from a Dutch ship, he had sided with Leith merchants over the Edinburgh burgesses.
As a secular title, praepositus is also very old, dating to the praepositus sacri cubiculi of the late Roman Empire, and the praepositus palatii of the Carolingian court. The title developed in France from where it found its way into Scots, where in Scotland it became the style (as provost) of the principal magistrates of the Royal Burghs (roughly speaking, the equivalent of "mayor" in other countries) ("Lord Provost" in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee), and into England, where it is applied to certain officers charged with the maintenance of military discipline. A Provost Marshal is an officer of the army originally appointed when troops are on service abroad (and now in the United Kingdom as well) for the prompt repression of all offenses. He may at any time arrest and detain for trial persons subject to military law committing offences, and may also carry into execution any punishments to be inflicted in pursuance of a court martial (Army Act 1881, § 74).
In 1891 when the boundaries of Glasgow were extended to include Ruchill and Maryhill, the Glasgow Corporation purchased of land there for a public park, golf course and for the city's second fever hospital, to create the additional capacity beyond that already provided at Belvidere Hospital in Parkhead. Ruchill Hospital was designed by the City Engineer, Alexander B. McDonald in a Neo Jacobean style, largely using red brick dressed with red sandstone ashlar. McDonald was responsible for a number of civic projects in the city from 1890 to 1914, the most notable being the People's Palace. Work started on Ruchill Hospital on 16 April 1895, and the foundation stone was laid by Lady Bell, the wife of Sir James Bell, Lord Provost of Glasgow, on 29 August 1895. The hospital cost £250,000 and was designed to deal specifically with infectious diseases, such as smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, poliomyelitis and measles, which were widespread at the time. It was opened by Princess Christian on 13 June 1900.
The grant of feu-ferme status in the middle of the 15th century meant that the town could deal with its own administrative issues and fiscal policies for the first time. The first mention of a town council was around 1582. The head courts of the burghs met either in the Common Muir (the surviving portion of the land now known as Volunteers' Green) or in the Tolbooth on Tolbooth Street, particularly in the summer months.Torrie and Coleman 1995, p.30. When Kirkcaldy was awarded royal burgh status in 1644, the duties of the provost were initially performed by bailies, councillors, and magistrates. The first Lord Provost, Robert Whyt, was elected to the post around 1658. The burgh was one of four in Scotland to use two coats of arms, introduced in 1673. One bears the motto Vigilando Munio ("I secure by watching"), and the other displays the figure of Saint Bryce, Kirkcaldy's patron saint.Fife Council 2000, p.10.
Sir Patrick MacChombaich de Colquhoun ( ; 13 April 1815 – 18 May 1891) was a British diplomat, legal writer and sculler who influenced early Cambridge rowing. Colquhoun was the son of James Colquhoun and the grandson of the Patrick Colquhoun who was Lord Provost of Glasgow. He was educated at Westminster and St John's College, Cambridge. In 1837 he won the Wingfield Sculls Sport, ancient and modern: Pastimes, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2: General; Ashford, East Bedfont with Hatton, Feltham, Hampton with Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Laleham, Littleton (1911), pp. 283-292. Date accessed: 8 October 2008 and in the same year instituted the Colquhoun Sculls at the University of Cambridge.Sport, A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 5 (1973), pp. 279-303 Date accessed: 9 October 2008 From 1840 to 1844, Colquhoun was Plenipotentiary of the Hanse Towns at Constantinople, Persia and Greece, through his father's connections.William Schaw Lindsay History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce 1874 by Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, London In Constantinople he was close friends with James Redhouse.
James Bain, Lord Provost and on Monday 5 November its doors were opened to the public. By 1977, it laid claim to being the largest public reference library in Europe. It is thought that Mitchell’s bequest may have been prompted by his wide reading and his interest in self-improvement. He is said to have encouraged and assisted the boys and girls in his employment to attend evening classes at Glasgow’s recently- founded Andersonian Institution. He also spent much of his time in the backroom of the bookseller’s shop which housed the Moffat Subscription Library where “in congenial companionship he talked in appreciative insight of books”. This library had been established in the year of Mitchell’s birth by James Clarke (1761-1825), the Rector of Moffat Grammar School, at the suggestion of his friend and fellow Dumfriesshire resident, Robert Burns, who also donated a number of books. Mitchell is also said to have delighted in Burns’ association with the library. Another suggested influence on Mitchell’s bequest is the minister who had baptised him, The Rev.
The Scotland Malawi Partnership was born from the 'Malawi Millennium Project' of the University of Strathclyde and Bell College, in response to the belief that there was a need to bring together under a single umbrella the many organizations and individuals throughout Scotland engaged in fostering and developing links between Scotland and Malawi.Scotland and Malawi: New Developments, Malawi Update, June, 2005 The Partnership was officially launched in the Glasgow City Chambers on 22 April 2004 by the Lord Provosts of Glasgow and Edinburgh, with the support of Ibrahim Milazi, the High Commissioner of Malawi, and representatives from the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, the Church of Scotland, and the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF). The Lord Provost of Glasgow and Dr Peter West (Secretary of the University of Strathclyde) thereafter travelled to Malawi, and, with the support of Norman Ling, the (then) British High Commissioner, and numerous prominent Malawians, established the Malawi Committee of the Scotland Malawi Partnership which held its first meeting on 28 September 2004.
Norman Hogg, Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld CBE, DL, JP, LLD, FSA Scot. (12 March 1938 – 8 October 2008) was a Scottish Labour politician. Educated at Ruthrieston Secondary School in Aberdeen, he worked for Aberdeen Town Council from 1953 to 1967 and then as a District Officer for NALGO from 1967 to 1979. His father, also Norman Hogg was the Lord Provost of Aberdeen from 1964 to 1967 and he was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeen in 1970. At the 1979 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Dunbartonshire East, defeating the Scottish National Party's Margaret Bain. When his constituency was abolished in boundary changes for the 1983 general election, he was elected for the new Cumbernauld and Kilsyth constituency, which he represented at Westminster until he stood down at the 1997 general election. During his time in the House of Commons he was a member of the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs from 1979 to 1982, Chairman of the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Group in 1981–82, Scottish Labour Whip in 1982–83, Deputy Chief Opposition Whip from 1983 to 1987, Scottish Affairs Spokesman in 1987–88, and a Member of the Public Accounts Committee in 1991–92. Hogg was created a life peer as Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld, of Cumbernauld in the County of North Lanarkshire on 24 September 1997.

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