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- Robert Maclaren 1817-1889
Born 1817 Falkirk, Scotland
Died 2nd April, l889. Ardenshaw, 5 St Andrews Drive, Pollokshields,Glasgow.
(Record of death 1889 Kinning Park District, entry 175)
Son of Robert Maclaren (of Bainsford) 1778-1826 & Margaret Shaw 1779/81-1854
Husband of Mary Jane Findlay with whom he had nine children
Left about £1.5M which he had made on steel futures and in RobertMaclaren & Co.
He was told that he shouldn't leave it all to his children, to which hereplied that if they had as much fun spending it as he had had making it,then they were welcome to it!
Obituary
In The Institute of Engineers & Shipbuilders in Scotland Vol. 32 p. 322
Mr. ROBERT MACLAREN was elected as a Member of the Institution in l859,and although not taking any active part in the work of the Institution,was well known amongst engineers as an iron founder, his works for themanufacture of castings for water supply, both pipes and specials,turning out large quantities of these, both for home and foreign orders.
Mr. Maclaren died at Glasgow on 2nd April, l889
Obituary
Robert Maclaren death notice listed in both the Glasgow Herald and SouthSuburban Press of 3rd and 6th April 1889.
This read as follows:
"At Ardenshaw, Pollokshields on the 2nd inSt Robert MacLaren of EglingtonFoundry. Friends will please accept this invitation."
His son Colonel Robert Maclaren 1860 to 1936 owned Robert Maclaren & CoLtd. Was Hon. Colonel of the Cameroneans and Chairman of the RoyalExchange in Glasgow for about 18 years.
See article (below) form "Industries of Glasgow" (published 1888) adescription of Robert Maclaren & Co., Iron Founder and Manufacturer ofpatent cast-iron pipes, Eglinton Iron Works, Port Eglinton. Among thegreatest of Glasgow's iron industries
See also History of ROBERT MACLAREN & COMPANY LTD. (later MaclarenControls) by Ian Garnet Maclaren 1962) in Notes of his son of Noman (Dr)Henry William Maclaren (1880-1936)
Article from "Industries of Glasgow" (published 1888) was a descriptionof Robert MacLaren & Co. indicating it was Robert senior and not his sonwho founded the firm in 1858.
Robert Maclaren & Co.,
Robert Maclaren & Co., Iron Founder and Manufacturer of patent cast-ironpipes, Eglinton Iron Works, Port Eglinton. Among the greatest ofGlasgow's iron industries stands that carried on at the above address byMessrs. Robert Maclaren &; Co., a firm whose name has become most closelyand creditably associated with the manufacture of all classes ofcast-iron pipes for gas, water, and sanitary purposes.
This eminent house was founded in 1858 by Mr. Robert Maclaren, who had athorough training in the important branch of iron founding to which hehas subsequently devoted his energies, and whose experience and knowledgehave been applied to the marked improvement of the class of goods he hasmade it his business to produce. The firm commenced operations at theirpresent fine premises, the Eglinton works, which have been enlarged andaltered from time to time to meet the requirements of an ever-growingtrade, which now cover no less an area than 26,000 square yards ofground, and employ from six to eight hundred hands, according to theamount of work in process of execution.
To describe in detail the many interesting phases and features of thisthoroughly typical establishment would carry us far beyond the limits ofthis necessarily concise sketch. It is, perhaps, sufficient to recordthat there is no department in the entire works in which the productivefacilities and capacity have not been brought up to the very best modernstandard; and in not a few instances there are manifested certainmethods, arrangements, and conveniences of an unique order, the outcomeand result of this firm's long and exhaustive experience applied to thebest and most effective purpose.
The mechanical and general equipment of the Eglinton Iron Works is beyondpraise. It represents the perfection of adequacy and efficiency that canonly be attained after years of labour and experiment, and illustratesthe laudably intelligent use Messrs. Maclaren and Co. have made of everyresource brought within their reach by the gradual and continuousdevelopment of the industry they control.
The situation of the works completes the sum total of theirrecommendation as an industrial centre, and the railway lines runningthrough them, coupled with their proximity to the river wharfage, affordevery desirable facility of transport and shipments. About three-fifthsof the area covered by the works is devoted to the purposes of yards, andconstitutes storage ground for many thousands of tons of cast-iron pipesof all kinds and sizes, complete and finished, and ready for shipment toany quarter of the globe.
The Mercantile Age, referring to Messrs. Maclaren and Co.'sestablishment, in a recent issue, says: '
Their works, as we have said,are replete with everything that science has dictated for the ablestconstruction of their specialties, and their reputation has long beenfirmly established with foreign Governments and corporations, as well asthose at home, and we are glad to bear this tribute of praise inacknowledgment of their untiring energy, excellent workmanship, andbusiness-like transactions." Messrs. Maclaren ~ Co. are among ourgreatest manufacturers of iron pipes. They are, in fact, specialists inthis most important industry, and their productions in gas andwater-pipes of every description have a reputation that is international.
The maintenance of that reputation and its consistent extension andenhancement now constitutes the industrial and commercial object of thefirm; and to this end there is no device or plan that skill, science, orexperience can suggest to facilitate the operations of the Eglinton Worksor improve the character of their unsurpassed productions that is not atonce adopted and actively employed by the house. Such a policy ofprogressive enterprise can have but one result, beneficial alike to thosepursuing it and to the world-wide public in whose interests it isdeveloped and adhered to. Messrs. Robert Maclaren & Co. control a tradeof universal range and immense magnitude: Their pipes for water and gassupply and for various sanitary uses are in demand among all civilisednations, and are shipped in ever-increasing quantities to every quarterof the globe.
Untiring energy, excellence of production, and straightforward commercialprinciples are the united causes of this satisfaction, effect; and thebusiness now centered at the Eglinton Works is a monument to thecharacteristic capacity and enterprise of a representative Glasgow firm,and a credit to the great national industry in which is a factor offirst-rate importance.
This article was found thanks to the efforts of
Jack Davis
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More Maclaren info at
http://home.earthlink.net/~maclaren/
Called "Maclaren & Birtwistle Information" which has a link to the mainpage.
The family tree on FamilyTree Maker website "Robert Maclaren 1776-1826 &Ralph de Birdtwisell 1160" is at
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/a/c/Hamish-S-Maclaren/
This has lots of reports, photos, etc..
see Robert Maclaren of Bainsford (1776-1826) for more information.
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