Sir Thomas Dunlop, 3rd Baronet

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Sir Thomas Dunlop, 3rd Baronet,

OStJ (11 April 1912 – 18 August 1999) was a Scottish businessman.[1][2]

Life

Dunlop was educated at Kelvinside Academy, Craigflower Preparatory School, Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge.[1] He qualified as a chartered accountant with McClelland Ker & Co and in 1938 became a partner in the family business, Thomas Dunlop & Sons, Shipowners and Insurance Brokers, founded in 1851. He was the fourth generation.[1]

During the

Royal Signals in India and the United Kingdom.[1] He returned to the family business and a succession of appointments in Glasgow.[1]

During the 1950s he served as a director of Glasgow & Clyde Shipowners' Association, vice president of the Royal Alfred Seafarers' Society, honorary agent of The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society and chairman of the Underwriters' Association of Glasgow.[1]

In 1955, he became Deacon of the Incorporation of Bakers of Glasgow and a director of the Merchant's House.[1] In the 1960s he served as chairman of the Trustee Savings Bank of Glasgow.[1] Dunlop retired from the family business in 1986.[2]

In March 1965 he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of St John.[3]

He succeeded as the third Baronet on the death of his father in 1963.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Sir Thomas Dunlop". The Herald (Glasgow). 28 August 1999. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  2. ^
    Who's Who & Who Was Who (2018 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 26 March 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ "No. 43613". The London Gazette. 30 March 1965. pp. 3196–3197.
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baronet
(of Woodbourne)
1963–1999
Succeeded by