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George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar
1st Baron Glentanar, cotton manufacturer

George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar

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George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar (11 February 1849 – 26 November 1918), was a Scottish cotton manufacturer.

Background

Coats was the son of Thomas Coats and Margaret Glen, daughter of Thomas Glen, of Thornhill Johnstone, Renfrewshire. He was the younger brother of Sir Thomas Glen-Coats, 1st Baronet, and a first cousin of Sir James Coats, 1st Baronet.

Business career

Coats was the owner of a cotton firm in Paisley. He acquired the Glen Tanar Estate in Aberdeenshire in 1905. In 1916 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Glentanar, of Glen Tanar in the County of Aberdeen.

Family

Lord Glentanar married Margaret Lothian Black, daughter of James Tait Black, of Underscar, Keswick, Cumberland. They had one son and two daughters. The elder daughter, the Honourable Lilian Maud, married the 5th Duke of Wellington, while the younger daughter, the Honourable Charlotte Margaret, married as her first husband William Walrond. He died in November 1918, aged 69, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son, Thomas. Lady Glentanar died in July 1935.

A monument to his memory was erected in 1919 in St Thomas's Episcopal Church in Aboyne designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.

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