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Colonel (Temporary Brigadier General)
SIR DONALD MATHESON, K.C.B., V.D.
Royal Engineers Volunteers

by
Lieutenant Colonel Edward De Santis
Ó 2018.  All Rights Reserved.

Figure 1.  Colonel Sir Donald Matheson, K.C.B., V.D., circa late 1890s.
(Image courtesy of Wikipedia)

 1.  INTRODUCTION  

            The principal references used in the preparation of this narrative were from a number of sources.  They include official registries in the United Kingdom, the Scotland Census, the London and Edinburgh Gazettes and various Internet web sites.  All sources are contained in the REFERENCE section at the end of the narrative and are cited throughout in the ENDNOTES.  Every effort has been made to accurately portray the life and military service of Sir Donald Matheson.           

2.  EARLY LIFE AND FAMILY INFORMATION  

            Donald Matheson was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1832, the son of John Matheson (1794 - ?),[1] a commission merchant, and his wife Jane Matheson (1798 - ?).[2]  John and Jane Matheson had three other children: Margaret (1819 - ?), John (1821 - ?) and Ellen (1831 - ?).  Donald grew up in Glasgow and was educated at Glasgow Academy.  His early commercial training was acquired with Messrs. Reid and Dennistoun, a foreign commission house in Glasgow.

            The 1861 Census of Scotland provides the following information regarding Donald Matheson’s household, then located at 185 St. Vincent Street in Glasgow:[3]  

             By 1861 Donald’s brother, John, also had gone out on his own and his sister Margaret had married a man named George Coats, who died before he and Margaret could have any children.  George Coats left Margaret with a large estate, which enabled her to live on her own for a while after his death.

            By 1871 it appears that Donald and Ellen moved into Margaret’s home at 6 Park Terrace in Glasgow,[4] as shown in the census return for that year.  This Park Terrace address would be Donald Matheson’s town home for the rest of his life. 

            The fact that Margaret had inherited quite a bit from her deceased husband can be seen by the number of servants employed by her.  

             A search of the 1881 Census of Scotland and the 1881 Census of England and Wales failed to locate the Matheson family.  Other records show that Matheson was living in Glasgow at that time and in fact he continued to live in Glasgow for the remainder of his life.  Searches were made for both him and for Margaret Coats on Ancestry.com in both the 1881 census taken that year, with negative results.

            The 1891 Census of Scotland shows that then, Sir Donald Matheson, was the head of the household living at 6 Park Terrace.[5]  As Donald Matheson became more prominent by earning a knighthood, and as his business interests expanded, his sister Margaret turned over the household to him.  Their sister Ellen had left 6 Park Terrace by this time, presumably after she had married.  The number of domestic servants increased from five in 1871 to eight in 1891.  

NOTE:

Turkey Red Dye was a method of dying fabrics to a vivid red of great fastness that originated in Turkey.

3.  PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

            No description of Sir Donald Matheson was found other than an excerpt from a letter from one of his great-nephews wherein he says that "Donald had a fine head of red hair, and side whiskers.”  The image at the beginning of this narrative shows the fine “side whiskers,” however, the fine head of red hair appears to have been lost to him in later life.  Both his hair and his whisker have turned gray by this time (sometime after 1892).[6]  He has a round face, blue eyes and appears to be slight of build.  

4.  MILITARY SERVICE

1^st Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers (1859-1864)

            Donald Matheson’s military service started in 1859 when he received a commission as a Lieutenant in the Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers.  He was promoted to the rank of Captain[7] in 10^th Battery of this Corp on the 24^th of February 1860 and served with the unit until the 14^th of April 1864.  The 10^th Battery (Calton Artisans) was accepted for service in the Corps on the 16^th of February 1860.

            The 1st Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers were formed in 1859 as a response to a perceived French invasion threat.  The 1st Administrative Brigade Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers was formed, with headquarters at Glasgow, on the 6^th of March 1860. In it were included, then or on their subsequent dates of formation, 14 batteries raised in Glasgow or its suburbs.

Figure 2.  A Gunner of the 1^st Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers.

(Photograph courtesy of Pinterest.co.uk)

            The enlisted men of the 10^th Battery were paid 2s. 6d. entry money and 30s. for their uniforms.   The original uniform of all the corps was similar to that of the Royal Artillery, with busbies and white waist-belts, but with scarlet cuffs and forage caps with scarlet bands.

            In 1862 the brigade was consolidated as the 1st Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers of fifteen batteries, which retained their former numbers. Up to 1865 the only guns on which the batteries were drilled were 32-pounder smooth-bores.

            The 1st Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers had a number of different buildings in various locations. An orderly-room, officers' and sergeants' clubs, and headquarters were at 8 Newton Terrace, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. The corps had five separate drill halls in different parts of the city, each with harness rooms and gun-sheds for two batteries. The Maryhill drill hall, accommodated all the ammunition wagons when not in use in the batteries.  During the time that Matheson was serving in this unit the Lieutenant-Colonels commandant of the Volunteer corps were William. S. S. Crawford (from 7 February 1861) and James Keid Stewart (from 12 May 1862). 

1^st Lanarkshire Royal Engineers (Volunteers) (1864-1898)

            It appears that Matheson switched his commission from the Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers to the Lanarkshire Engineer Volunteers on the formation of that latter corps on the 19^th of May 1863.  On that date the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Lanark Engineers and the 97th Rifles were amalgamated as the 1st Lanarkshire Engineer Volunteers, a corps of six companies, with headquarters at 115 West Campbell Street, Glasgow, the drill and practice ground being on the river Kelvin, above the bridge on the Great Western Road.[8]

            On the 15^th of April 1864 he was promoted to the rank of Major[9] and on the 25^th of November 1865 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel after the resignation of Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Johnstone, who had commanded the unit since the 18^th of June 1863.  He performed these duties as the Lieutenant Colonel of the Corps for about 20 years while operating his very lucrative business as a calico printer and merchant for the East India Company. 

            In 1883 the establishment of the 1^st Lanarkshire Engineer Volunteers was increased to 8 companies, and in 1885 a 9th (Submarine Mining) Company was raised for the Clyde submarine defences.  On the 22^nd of February 1885 Matheson was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 1^st Lanarkshire Volunteers.[10]^,[11]  A second submarine mining company was formed in 1888, but in the same year the bulk of both was detached to form the Clyde Division of Submarine Miners as an independent corps and in their place a new 9th (Railway) Company was formed.[12] By Army Order 73 of March 1888, the title of the corps was changed to the "1st Lanarkshire Engineer Volunteers, Fortress and Railway Forces, Royal Engineers," and shortly afterwards headquarters were removed to 4 Albany Place, Glasgow, as a temporary measure pending the building of the more commodious headquarters at 21 Jardine Street, Kelvinside. 

Figure 3.  New HQ of the 1^st Lanarkshire Engineer Volunteers at 21 Jardine Street.[13]
(Photograph courtesy of Google Earth.

            Donald Matheson was appointed Honorary Commandant of this newly formed Clyde Division Royal Engineers Submarine Miners on the 25^th of February 1888, a position he would hold until his death in 1901.[14]  This new command notwithstanding, he remained the Honorary Colonel of the 1^st Lanarkshire Volunteer Engineers with his headquarters at 4 Albany Place in Glasgow.

            In 1891 the officers 1^st Lanarkshire Royal Engineers Volunteers consisted of one Lieutenant Colonel (Matheson), two Majors, eight Captains, seven Lieutenants, two Second Lieutenants, one Captain (Adjutant), one Quartermaster, two Surgeons an Acting Chaplain.  The nominal roll of officers, including the corps’ Sergeant Major, is included as Appendix 1 to this narrative.

            In May 1900 the establishment of the 1^st Lanarkshire Volunteer Engineers was raised to twelve fortress companies.[15]  The headquarters of the corps comprised, besides a drill-hall, stores and other facilities, a practice ground on the bank of the Kelvin where bridging could be practiced, and for its musketry it held, conjointly with the 1st and 2^nd V.B.H.L.I., a range up to 1000 yards at Dechmont, nine miles from Glasgow. The 1st Lanarkshire R.E.V. attained some fame as a shooting corps, and in 1889 a Sergeant Reid of the corps won the Queen's Prize at the National Rifle Association Meeting. 

Clyde Volunteer Infantry Brigade (1890 – 1901)

            In 1890, in addition to his duties with the Lanarkshire Volunteer Engineers, Donald Matheson was appointed to be the Colonel Commandant of the Clyde Volunteer Infantry Brigade.   The enthusiasm for the Volunteer movement following an invasion scare in 1859 saw the creation of many Rifle Volunteer units composed of part-time soldiers eager to supplement the Regular British Army in time of need.  The Stanhope Memorandum of 1888 proposed a comprehensive Mobilization Scheme for Volunteer units, which would assemble in their own brigades at key points in case of war. In peacetime these brigades provided a structure for collective training.  Under this scheme a number of Volunteer Battalions in Southern Scotland would assemble together at Glasgow as the Clyde Brigade.  The Brigade Headquarters was at 137 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, and the first brigade commander was Colonel Sir William Cuninghame, VC, who had been appointed on the 17^th of October 1888.  Colonel Donald Matheson, K.C.B. took over the command from him when Sir William went on to command another brigade.

            The Clyde Volunteer Infantry Brigade was a formidable force consisting of the following units:

·         1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers

• 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
•  
• 1st Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (a Volunteer Battalion of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles))
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• 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Scottish Rifles
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• 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps (a Volunteer Battalion of the Scottish Rifles)
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• 4th Volunteer Battalion, Scottish Rifles
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• 5th Volunteer Battalion, Scottish Rifles
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• 1st Volunteer Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
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• 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
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• 3rd (Blythswood) Volunteer Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
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• 9th Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteer Corps (a Volunteer Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry)
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• 5th (Glasgow Highland) Volunteer Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
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• 1st (Renfrewshire) Volunteer Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
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• 2nd (Renfrewshire) Volunteer Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
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• 3rd (Renfrewshire) Volunteer Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
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• 5th Volunteer Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
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• 1st Dumbarton Rifle Volunteer Corps (a Volunteer Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
•  
• Supply Detachment, Army Service Corps

            With a total of 17 battalions this brigade was larger than most Volunteer Brigades and in 1890 it was split into two, the Volunteer Battalions of the Royal Scots Fusiliers and Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders continuing in the Clyde Brigade, while the Scottish Rifles and Highland Light Infantry formed a separate Glasgow Brigade. Sir William Cuninghame, VC commanded the Glasgow Brigade. 

            No information has been uncovered during this research effort to indicate that Matheson ever had any training as an infantry officer; however, this did not seem to preclude him from being appointed to command an infantry brigade.  One can assume that this appointment was purely administrative and that in the case of a war involving any of the infantry battalions of the brigade, those battalions would be reassigned to a brigade under the command of an experienced infantry officer.

            As the commander of the Clyde Volunteer Infantry Brigade, Matheson was given the temporary rank of Brigadier General.  As such he was entitled to an Aide-de-Camp and his first ADC was Captain C.E. Grant of the Ayrshire Yeomanry, who was appointed to the position on the 1^st of November 1890.[16]

            Matheson was awarded the Volunteer Decoration on the 22^nd of November 1892[17] for his service as volunteer officer from 1859 to 1892, a total of 33 years, the qualifying period for the award being only 20 years.

            On the 18^th of March 1893 Matheson vacated his command of the 1^st Lanarkshire Volunteer Engineers and was appointed the Honorary Colonel of that corps.[18]  He was then able to devote more of his time and energy to the command of the Clyde Brigade.  Matheson was assigned a new ADC on the 7^th of August 1895 when Major J.W. King of the 4^th (Stirlingshire) Volunteer Battalion, Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) was appointed.[19]

            Sir Donald Matheson resigned his commission as the Honorary Colonel of the 1^st Lanarkshire Royal Engineers (Volunteers) on the 2^nd of February 1898.[20]  He was replaced by no less an illustrious personage as Major General Horatio Herbert Kitchener of Khartoum.[21]

5. PROFESSIONAL CAREER

            Donald Matheson was an astute and successful merchant.  In 1869 he established and conducted, simultaneously, the businesses of Donald Matheson and Company, Dyer and Matheson and Alston, East India Merchants, both enterprises headquartered in Glasgow.  He was what was known at the time, a Calico Printer.  This business essentially consisted of printing small designs, usually floral in nature, on cotton fabric.  Initially done by hand using wooden blocks and ink, the business developed into mass-producing such fabrics using large machinery.

            As noted in the 1891 Census of Scotland, Matheson was classified as a Turkey Red Dyer and Calico Printer, with Turkey Red Dye being described as a method of dying fabrics to a vivid red of great fastness that originated in Turkey.  A number of firms tried to perfect the Turkey red process and capitalize on the demand for these brightly colored printed cottons, but many of these enterprises were short-lived. Three firms from the Vale of Leven, however, successfully produced and exported Turkey red dyed and printed cottons and became leaders of the industry.  Of the ‘big three’ Turkey red firms in the Vale of Leven, William Stirling and Sons were the first to establish themselves in the area. The firm was founded in Glasgow in the mid-eighteenth century and relocated to the Vale of Leven in the 1770s to take advantage of plentiful fresh water, good bleach fields and cheap labour. The first established works was Cordale and the company purchased the Dalquhurn factory in 1789, which was a fully operational calico printing establishment with three copperplate shops that also employed 200 pencillers who were responsible for brushing in blues and yellows by hand onto fabric. In the second generation of Stirling ownership in the 1820s the company expanded into Turkey red dying and printing, adopting and perfecting a technique in which many Glasgow firms had failed. Third and fourth generations of the Stirling family were active in the business, but by the 1850s others had entered into the partnership, including John Matheson, Donald’s brother, who became a significant innovator in the firm’s history.  On the death of his brother John in 1878, Donald acquired a partnership in the firm of William Stirling and Sons in Dumbartonshire.

Figure 4.  Calico Printing Machines in the 19^th Century.
(Image courtesy of Wikipedia)

            Donald Matheson was successful as merchant and had many philanthropic interests.  He was known for his extensive work for the welfare and culture of the people in his employ and in his community.  As a result, on the 24^th of May 1881 Matheson was made a Companion of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath (C.B.) (Civil Division).[22]   

Figure 5.  C.B. (Civil Division) Neck Badge.
(Image courtesy of Google.com)

            Further honors were bestowed on Matheson when he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Lanark on the 13^th of November 1881.  In the United Kingdom a Deputy Lieutenant is a Crown appointment and one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area.  After this appointment Matheson was able to use the postnominal letters DL.  He was nominated by the Lord Lieutenant to assist with any duties as were required in the county and would represent the Lord Lieutenant in his absence, including at local ceremonies and official events, from opening exhibitions to inductions of vicars (as requested by the Church of England).

            Perhaps because of his duties as Deputy Lieutenant for Lanark and for his other works for the good of the community, Her Majesty Queen Victoria honored him on the 3^rd of January 1888 by appointing him to be a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (K.C.B.) (Civil Division).[23]

Figure 6.  Breast Badge of the K.C.B. (Civil Division).
(Image courtesy of Pinterest.co.uk)  

            In 1894 Donald Matheson was appointed an Honorary Member of the Irvine Burns Club in Irvine, North Ayrshire.  Burns Clubs existed throughout the world to encourage and cherish the memory of Robert Burns, to foster a love of his writings and generally to encourage an interest in the Scots Language and Literature.

            At the time of his appointment Matheson appears to have been out of the country.  He had received notification of his appointment and was asked to acknowledge his appointment in writing.  Apparently this requirement had slipped his mind, so he wrote the following letter, dated the 23^rd of March 1894, to J. Dickie, Esquire, Hon. Secretary, Irvine Burns while aboard the P&O S.S. Oriental apologizing for his oversight.[24]

Dear Mr Dickie

     When I received intimation from you a considerable time ago that the Irvine Burns Club had done me the honour to elect me an honorary member I intended to, & have since been under the impression that I had, at once accepted the honorary membership with grateful thanks, but having some faint misgivings on the subject I requested Mr Rankin, the last time I saw him to ascertain for me whether I had really done so or only intended & so afterwards thought I had done so, and I received a letter from Mr Rankin the day before I left home informing me that I had omitted to do so.[25]

     I am quite ashamed of this misapprehension and oversight on my part, and I will be much obliged if you will be so good as to convey to the members my humble apology for the unwitting delay and my grateful acceptance of the honour they have done me.

     I will be happy if I may be afforded some opportunity of meeting with the members of the Club.

     With kind regards believe me

     Yours faithfully

     Donald Matheson

Figure 7.  Wellwood House, Burns Club, Irvine, North Ayrshire.
(Image courtesy of the Wellwood Burns Centre and Museum)

            On the 6^th of February 1894, prior to leaving the U.K. for his trip abroad, Matheson also had been appointed Deputy Lieutenant for the County and City of Glasgow with duties similar to those of his appointment as DL for Lanarkshire.  He was also made a Justice of the Peace (J.P.)[26]  

            On the 27^th of April 1895 Matheson sailed from Southampton aboard the Union Castle ship Moor bound for Madeira, Portugal.[27]

            In 1896 Matheson became the chairman of the planning board for the proposed Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway.  The contractor and entrepreneur Charles Forman had been active in encouraging various Great Glen[28] schemes and had proposed the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway to run to Fort Augustus from Spean Bridge on the West Highland Railway.  The planning board of the company consisted of:

• Sir Donald Matheson K.C.B. (Chairman)
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• Captain Edward Charles Ellice (Deputy Chairman)
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• James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger
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• Michael Bass, 1st Baron Burton
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• John Charles Cuninghame 17th Laird of Craigends and Upper Foyers
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• John Neilson of Glasgow
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• George Malcolm of Invergarry

            The scheme attracted considerable local support and it obtained its authorizing Act of Parliament on the 14^th of August 1896.  The population of Fort Augustus was less than 500, and it was widely assumed that the line was a speculative bid to reach Inverness.

            The railway opened in opened in 1903.  Serving exceptionally sparsely inhabited areas it was never commercially successful, but it rekindled hostilities between larger railways over a planned railway connection along the Great Glen reaching Inverness; however, this scheme never materialized.

            Sir Donald Matheson continued his military and civilian duties into 1898 and was awarded the 1897 Medal to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.  He lived in retirement until the 6^th of March 1901 when he died at the age of 69.  His residence had remained at 6 Park Terrace over many of those years and his country home was still at Bourtreehill in Ayrshire at the time of his death.  His effects were valued at £57,091 8s 2d (approximately $7,708,000 US Dollars in 2018).[29]  Indeed, he had been a prosperous business man.

            Sections 1 through 5 of this work have been an attempt to present the life and military service of Sir Donald Matheson, K.C.B. in a narrative form.  Sections 6 and 7 will summarize the major events in his life for easy access by the reader.

6.  PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS

Promotions:  Donald Matheson received the following promotions during his time in military service:

 Appointments:  Donald Matheson received the following military and civil appointments during his life time:

 7.  MEDALS, AWARDS AND DECORATIONS  

            Sir Donald Matheson received the following medals, awards and decorations during his life time:[30]

NOTES:

1. In Figure 1 Matheson is wearing all the badges and medals expect for the 1897 Jubilee Medal.
2. The very delicate engraving on the reverse of the Volunteer Decorations reads as follows (see Figure 11):

Sir Donald Matheson, C.B. (Civil) 1881
K.C.B. (Civil) 1887
V.D. 22^nd Nov.1892
Col. Commanding the Clyde Vol. Infy. Brigade
and Hon. Col. 1^st Lanarkshire Vol. Eng^rs  

 Figure 8.  The 1897 Jubilee Medal and Volunteer Decoration as Worn.
(Image courtesy of Wikipedia)

 Figure 9.  Matheson’s Cased Original Volunteer Decoration.
(Image from the author’s collection)  

The case is leather-covered wood with a maroon velvet insert below the medal and a padded silk insert on the inside of the cover.  The insert bears the information of the medal maker, in this case:

R&S GARRARD & CO.
Goldsmiths & Jewelers

ŦƟTHE CROWN
25 HAYMARKET, LONDON

(Both images from the author’s collection)  

8.  MARRIAGE AND PERSONAL INFORMATION

            Donald Matheson never married.  A comment taken from a letter[32] written by one of his relatives stated that: “He did not believe in marriage, and lived with his charming mistress, whose name was Margaret Brown."  Little is known of Margaret Brown. As a pillar of his community this relationship surely must have been very discrete, especially given the expected standards of “public” behavior of the Victorian era.

            Matheson was a member of the Conservative and Western Clubs[33] in Glasgow.[34] Although he had been an East India Merchant and prominent in the calico printing business, it was said of him that he was not so well known to the majority of his peers as a captain of industry, but rather he was well known for the most successful performance of his duties as a  Volunteer Engineer Officer.

            His obituary from the Irvine Burns Club stated that as an Irvine man, his achievements and character come alive in our minutes of the time: "Sir Donald Matheson, K.C.B., Bourtreehill, Irvine, Honorary Colonel, Clyde Division Volunteer Submarine Miners, Royal Engineers, and Honorary Colonel, 1st Lanarkshire Engineer Volunteer Corps, in recognition of the honours conferred on him for distinguished services as an officer of the Volunteer Forces and also of the active and philanthropic interest he takes in all movements for the welfare and culture of the people."

APPENDIX 1
Nominal Roll of Officers, 1891-1892

OFFICERS OF 1st LANARKSHIRE (ROYAL ENGINEERS) VOLUNTEERS  

  Head Quarters, 4 Albany PI., Sauchiehall St.
  Drill Hall, Tillie Street, Kelvin Bridge.  

LIEUTENANT COLONEL  

 Sir Donald Matheson, K.C.B. (Brigadier General)
 6 Park Terrace, Glasgow

 MAJORS  

  Herbert D. Robinson, Glanleam, Bearsden
  James Broadfoot, 2 Hamilton Terrace, Partick  

CAPTAINS  

  William Broadfoot, 2 Sandyford Place  Ewing
E. Crawford, 6 Marchmont Terrace
  Duncan Campbell, 10 Lynedoch Place
  James Smith Park, 11 Kelvinside Terrace
  William Jackson, 17 Westbourne Terrace, Kelvinside
  David Laidlaw, 6 Marlborough Terrace, Kelvinside
  Alexander Moore, 17 Montgomery Quadrant
  H. Reid, Belmont, Springburn

LIEUTENANTS  

  A. A. Leitke, 4 Eton Gardens, Hillhead
  William Ferguson, Larkfield, Partick
  James Pollock Morton, 4 Doune Gardens
  Alfred Westmacott, 27 Kersland Terrace, Hillhead
  W. E. Lang, 5 Crown Gardens
Arthur Smith, 20 Park Terrace
  E. M. Maclay, 3 Woodlands Terrace  

SECOND LIEUTENANTS  

  Lewis Westmacott, 27 Kersland Terrace
  James Gourlay, 11 Crown Gardens  

ADJUTANT  

  Capt. H. Jerome, E.E., 4 Albany place  

QUARTERMASTER  

  James Kennedy, Chesters, New Kilpatrick  

SURGEONS  

  S. J. Moore, p., 15 Blythswood Square
  A. Mechan, M.B. 11 Newton terrace

 ACTING CHAPLAIN  

  The Reverend. George Gibson Gunn, 9 Grauby Terrace, Hillhead  

SERGEANT-MAJOR  

  J. Pearcey, E.E., 16 Grosvenor Crescent, Hillhead

REFERENCES

Books  

1. Brown, W. Baker.  History of Submarine Mining in the British Army.  W. & J. Mackay & Co., Ltd., Chatham, 1910, p. 179.
2. GRIERSON, J.M.  Records of the Scottish Volunteer Force, 1859-1908.  William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1909.
3. Who Was Who, 1897-1916.

Census Data  

1.  1871 Scotland Census
2.  1891 Scotland Census
3. 1901 Scotland Census

Documents  

Letter from Donald Matheson to J. Dickie, Esquire, Hon. Secretary, Irvine Burns,  dated the 23^rd of March 1894.

Family Trees  

McKay Family Tree  http://lu.softxs.ch/mackay/Couples6/C175416.html
 

Internet Web Sites

1. The Irvine Burns Club
   
   http://www.irvineburnsclub.org/honpages/hon1886etseq.htm

2.    DNW Auction Site – Miniature Medals.

https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past- catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=447&lot_id=283106

3.  LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Head Office for Scotland— 133 West George Street, GLASGOW. Chairman—Colonel Sir DONALD MATHESON, K.C.B., https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14767409015/  

4. University of Glasgow Special Collections.

http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search/detail_c.cfm?ID=39256  

5.      Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Invergarry_and_Fort_Augustus_Railway

6. 1^st Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Lanarkshire_Artillery_Volunteers  

7. Irvine Burns Honorary Members List

http://www.irvineburnsclub.org/honorary.php  

8. The Western Club

http://www.westernclub.co.uk/about/history/    

London and Edinburgh Gazettes

1. The London Gazette, 28 February 1860, p. 856.
2. The Edinburgh Gazette, 2 March 1860, p. 339.
3. The London Gazette, 19 April 1864, p. 2173.
4. The Edinburgh Gazette, 5 December 1865, p. 1637.
5. The Edinburgh Gazette, 7 December 1869, p. 1580.
6. The London Gazette, 24 May 1881, p. 2674.
7. The London Gazette, 22 November 1881, p. 5716.
8. The London Gazette, 20 March 1885, p. 1253.
9. The London Gazette, 21 June 1887, p. 3363.
10. The London Gazette, 5 Jan 1888, pp. 210 & 215.
11. The London Gazette, 24 February 1888, p. 1227.
12. The London Gazette, 31 October 1890, p. 5750.
13. The Edinburgh Gazette, 25 November 1892, p. 1350.
14. The London Gazette, 17 March 1893, p. 1694.
15. The London Gazette, 2 February 1894, p. 687.
16. The Edinburgh Gazette, 6 February 1894, p. 169.
17. The London Gazette, 6 Aug 1895, p. 4435.
18. The London Gazette, 1 February 1898.
19. The London Gazette, 23 April 1901, p. 2817.
20. Scottish Post Office Directory, 1888-1889, p. 445

Passenger Lists  

UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960, 27 April 1895.  

Periodicals (Miscellaneous)

    1.      Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in ..., Volume 40, 1896-1897.  By Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.

2. Members of the Local Executive Committee.  REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Forty-Fifth Annual Congress OF The British Archaeological Association HELD AT GLASGOW 27TH August to 4th September, 1888.

Registers and Directories  

Scottish Post Office Directory, 1888-1889, p. 445

http://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/archive/84608951?mode=transcription

2.      Probate Register of Scotland, 1901, p. 320.

1. Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1892.   

2. Glasgow Post Office Directory, 1891-1892.

3. Glasgow Post Office Directory, 1900-1901.

4. Probate Calendar, 1901.

ENDNOTES