LORD
PROVOST ARCHIBALD McINNES SHAW
COLONEL McINNES SHAW was born at Maryhill in 1862, and
educated at Glasgow Academy. On leaving school he entered his father's business
the firm of Shaw & McInnes, at Firhill Ironworks, of which he is now sole
partner, and to which he has added Scotstoun Foundry. Following in the footsteps
of his father - who had been Provost of Maryhill before the annexation of that
burgh to the city - he entered the Town Council as representative for that
district in 1899, became a Bailie in 1902, Senior Magistrate in 1907, and Lord
Provost in 1908. He was Lieut.-Colonel in the 1st Lanarkshire Garrison artillery
Volunteers before its Territorial transformation. He is now Honorary Colonel of
one of its units, the 4th Lowland {Howitzer} Brigade Royal Field Artillery. He
has seen 29 years' service, holding the V.D. and Long Service Medal. Among the
many associations with which he is connected are the Perthshire, Fife and
Kinross, and Dunbartonshire Associations, and the incorporations of Hammermen
and Wrights. He is a member of the Conservative Club and Royal Clyde Yacht Club,
and President of the Scottish Employers' Federation of Iron and Steel Founders'
Associations. In 1899 he married Miss Fraser, and has two children.
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