John Smith Samuel
Sir John Smith Samuel KBE FRSE, FSA (Scot.), DL, JP (1870 – November 1934) was a Scottish local government official. He was ceremonial secretary to the Glasgow Corporation and private secretary to successive Lords Provost of Glasgow for 38 years.
Life
[edit]He was born on 2 April 1870.
In 1902 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Magnus Maclean, John Glaister, James Dalrymple Duncan Dalrymple and John Horne.[1]
From 1903 he served as Secretary to John Ure Primrose. At that time he lived at 8 Park Avenue.[2]
He then consecutively served Sir William Bilsland, Sir Archibald McInnes Shaw, Daniel Macaulay Stevenson, Sir Thomas Dunlop, Sir James Stewart, Sir Thomas Paxton, Sir David Mason and Sir Thomas Kelly.[3]
He died in a nursing home in Glasgow on 10 November 1934 following a brief spell of influenza.[4][5]
References
[edit]- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2018.
- ^ Glasgow Post Office Directory 1905
- ^ "Provosts of Glasgow". 5 May 2017.
- ^ Scotsman (newspaper) 12 November 1934
- ^ Scotsman newspaper 6 November 1934
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