Thomas Dunlop

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Thomas Dunlop (1855–1938) was Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1914–17. From 1881, he was a director of his father's firm, Thomas Dunlop & Sons, grain merchants; shipowners of the Queen Line of steamers and the Clan Line of sailing ships; marine insurance brokers and Lloyd's agents. He was also a director of the Royal Bank of Scotland for 21 years. 1

He held numerous public offices on his way to becoming Lord Provost: he served on Erskine School Board (Renfrewshire); in 1898, he became Deacon of the Incorporaton of Bakers (primary customers for his flour imports); a Clyde Navigation Trustee (supporting free ferries); a Glasgow town councillor from 1901, and from 1905 a bailie (magistrate). He chaired the Corporation Parks and Galleries Committee from 1909 to 1912, and was Glasgow's Deputy Lieutenant. 2

Dunlop was a director of theGlasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, and was said to 'possess a representative collection of pictures of the Glasgow School'. He was also a keen yachtsman and served as an officer with the 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers. During the First World War he fund-raised tirelessly and visited servicemen on active duty. He was created 1st Baronet of Woodbourne in 1916 and knighted in 1918. 3

Notes:

1: George Eyre-Todd, 'Thomas Dunlop', Who's Who in Glasgow in 1909, Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1909, unpaginated; Glasgow Herald, 31 January 1938, p. 13; Scotsman, 31 January 1938, p. 7.

2: ‘Dunlop, Sir Thomas’, Who Was Who, London: A. & C. Black, 1920–2008, online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2007, at www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U208866 [accessed 7 October 2012]; George Eyre-Todd, 'Thomas Dunlop', Who's Who in Glasgow in 1909, Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1909, unpaginated; 'Dunlop, Thomas, Waterside Cottage, Langbank',Glasgow Contemporaries at the Dawn of the XXth Century, Glasgow: Photo-Biographical Publishing Co., 1901, p. 79; Scotsman, 31 January 1938, p. 7.

3: George Eyre-Todd, 'Thomas Dunlop', Who's Who in Glasgow in 1909, Glasgow: Gowans & Gray, 1909, unpaginated; Glasgow Herald, 31 January 1938, p. 13, 6 November 1914, p. 4; Scotsman, 31 January 1938, p. 7.

'Mackintosh Architecture' led by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; with additional support from The Monument Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and collaborative input from Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.