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You may have noticed that we're excited about our 150th birthday!! 
But who set up the Baths way back in 1870? Here are the stories of our founding member: a thread 
#PeopleWhoMadeGlasgow #OTD #Arlington150 #swimming #ArchivesMatter #PeopleMakeGlasgow #Glasgow
But who set up the Baths way back in 1870? Here are the stories of our founding member: a thread #PeopleWhoMadeGlasgow #OTD #Arlington150 #swimming #ArchivesMatter #PeopleMakeGlasgow #Glasgow
First up is Major Francis Walter Allan, East India merchant, advocate of women learning to swim & longtime member of the 1st Lanark Rifle Volunteers https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/03/09/f-w-allan-founding-member/
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Thomas Steel Anderson was in the East India trade, a shipping manager and businessman who lived in India for many years. He’s buried in Kolkata but always kept a link with the Baths https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/06/17/thomas-steel-anderson/
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Robert Boyd was a calico printer who worked with his family's firm based in Barrhead and Manchester https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/07/02/robert-boyd/
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Archibald Colville helped to run A & A Galbraith, a cotton spinning company which employed 1700 people in two massive cotton mills at Oakbank & St Rollox in Glasgow https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/06/02/archibald-colville/
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Sebastian Hermann Schwabe, whose family came from Germany, was a businessman who also was a calico printer. His mother, Auguste, set up one of the first public nurseries in Glasgow https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/06/22/sebastian-hermann-schwabe/
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James Samuel Higginbotham’s family came from Manchester to also set up a big calico printing company. Mary, his wife, set up a free district nurses service for the poor, later part of the @QNI_Scotland https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/06/30/james-s-higginbotham/
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The Sloans were an important family for the Baths. Founder William was in shipping; his son Alexander was a pioneer of the new profession of chartered accountant & was secretary of the Club for 50 years! His company @AlexanderSloan is still in Glasgow https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/william-sloan/
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William Graham was a successful accountant & city father who led the Glasgow Corporation committee that built Scotland Street School, designed by the Charles Rennie Mackintosh @SSSMuseum @crmsociety  https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/william-graham/
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Dr John Black Cowan was an eminent surgeon and a professor of medicine at Glasgow University @UofGlasgow, also marking 150 years in the West End this year https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/06/25/john-black-cowan/
Dr Wiliam Fleming was a became well-known in Glasgow medical circles as an experimental physiologist and general surgeon. He published research from his experiments in our Turkish Baths (He measured his own sweat!) https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/william-james-fleming/
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Brigadier-General Sir Donald Matheson was in the Turkey Red dye business. He was knighted for his many years service with the city’s military volunteers
https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/sir-donald-matheson/
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https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/sir-donald-matheson/
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Wemyss Orrok Bulley was an East India merchant and a volunteer in the 1st Lanarkshire Volunteer Rifles https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/06/17/wemyss-orrok-bulley/
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John Marshall Jnr was a lawyer, part of a successful family business in the city https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/john-marshall-junior/
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Robert Dalglish Jnr was a calico printer, whose MP father campaigned for Sunday opening at The Botanic Gardens & to get Glasgow’s Duke of Wellington statue. @GlasgowBotanic The family lived at Kilmadenny House, now an arts centre @EDLC_Culture https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/robert-dalglish-junior/
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Our last founder is lawyer Robert Peel Lamond – named for Prime Minister Robert Peel. His father helped organise a massive banquet for Peel’s 1837 visit to Glasgow to become @UofGlasgow rector. R.P. Lamond also wrote about the reform of the Poor Laws https://arlingtonbathshistory.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/robert-peel-lamond/
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We could not have done this research without amazing archive sources from @GC_Archives @UofGlasgowASC @ScotlandsPeople @natlibscot @NtlMuseumsScot @NatRecordsScot @GlasgowLib @HistEnvScot @hunterian @GlwNecropolis @UniStrathLibIT @RBS @RMGreenwich @CWGC @UkNatArchives
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+ these sources/researchers: @internetarchive @Wikipedia @TheWFA @RMGreenwich @Paul4Jags @Workhouses @SallyTuckett HUGE thanks to History Group researchers @wcjess @jdloates @elucyjanes & Kay & Eunice for all their work. Here’s to making history for another 150 years! 18/ENDS
