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Category: Arlington Swimming Club Committee

Members of the Committee of Management of Arlington Swimming Club 1870

Thomas Steel Anderson – ship broker and businessman

June 17, 2020August 23, 2022 ~ Arlington Baths Club History Group ~ 1 Comment

Thomas Steel Anderson was a successful businessman whose life took him from Lanarkshire to India.

Wemyss Orrok Bulley – East India merchant

June 17, 2020July 10, 2020 ~ Arlington Baths Club History Group ~ 2 Comments

Wemyss Orrok Bulley was a young merchant engaged in foreign trade when he joined the first Committee of Management of the Arlington Swimming Club.

Sir Donald Matheson – businessman and military volunteer

June 4, 2020July 10, 2020 ~ wcjess ~ 2 Comments

Brigadier-General Sir Donald Matheson was a Glasgow businessman who was knighted for his many years of commitment to the city's military volunteers.

Archibald Colville – cotton merchant

June 2, 2020July 10, 2020 ~ wcjess ~ 1 Comment

Archibald Colville worked all his life with one of the biggest cotton spinning companies in Glasgow.

F. W. Allan – founding member and champion of ladies’ swimming

March 9, 2020June 17, 2020 ~ Arlington Baths Club History Group ~ 4 Comments

F. W. Allan was one of our founding members and a champion of ladies' swimming. We discovered a little bit more about his life.

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