WILLIAM McKILLOP
THE Member of Parliament for So. Armagh, who is a partner in
the firm of J. & W. McKillop, proprietors of the Grosvenor and Royal restaurants
in Glasgow, is a son of Daniel McKillop and Matilda Blair, of Antrim, Ireland
and was born in 1860 at Dalry, in Ayrshire. He was educated at the Public
Schools of Dalry and Catrine and for a time was a captain in the Royal Scots
Fusiliers', but gave that up to enter commercial life. His firm held the
contract for catering for the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1901, and
possesses in the Grosvenor Restaurant a catering establishment unsurpassed for
magnificence out of London. In 1900 Mr. McKillop was elected M.P. in the
Nationalist interest for North Sligo, and in 1906, for So. Armagh. He has
travelled in France and Spain, and, as an enthusiast for football, is a member
of Queen's Park and Celtic Football Clubs. In 1889 he married the second
daughter of the late George Fisher, Glasgow. She died in 1892, and in April,
1908, he married Miss Dalton, a sister-in-law of Mr. John Redmond. M.P., leader
of the Irish party in Parliament.
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