Charles Augustus Carlow

Charles Augustus Carlow FRSE (30 November 1878 – 13 August 1954) was a Scottish mining engineer and owner and managing director of the Fife Coal Company Ltd., that was based in Leven, Fife.

Charles Augustus Carlow
Born(1878-11-30)30 November 1878
Died13 August 1954(1954-08-13) (aged 75)
Alma materHeriot-Watt College
University of Edinburgh
Occupation(s)Mining engineer, businessman, philanthropist
Known forOwner of Fife Coal Company
RelativesWilliam Lindsay (maternal grandfather)
Sir William Reid (cousin)

Life

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Carlow was born at 2 Links Place in Leven, Fife on 30 November 1878 to Mary Weatherstone (née Lindsay; 1851-1929), daughter of William Lindsay, a shipowner, and Charles Carlow (1849-1923) a mining engineer. He studied mining technology at Heriot-Watt College and the University of Edinburgh.

In 1952 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (LLD) from the University of St Andrews. He died in St Andrews in Fife on 13 August 1954.[1]

Family

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He was the maternal grandson of William Lindsay FRSE (1819-1884).

He was first cousin to Sir Charles Carlow Reid co-author with his son, Sir William Reid of the "Reid Report" on the state of British coal-mining.[2]

Benefactions

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In 1927 he gave Blair House and 27 acres of ground near Culross in Fife to serve as a convalescent home for elderly and injured miners. The home is named for him as Charles Carlow Miners Convalescent Home.[3]

Positions held

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  1. ^ C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  2. ^ Outram, Quentin (26 May 2016), "Carlow, Charles Augustus (1878–1954), mining engineer and manager" (PDF), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/106746
  3. ^ "::: Convalescence :::". www.blaircastle.net. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Charles A. Carlow (Deceased 1954) - AIME". www.aimehq.org.
  5. ^ Museum, Durham Mining. "Durham Mining Museum - Charles Augustus Carlow". www.dmm.org.uk.