Fa'side, Mearns, Renfrewshire, Scotland

Notes:
Sir Wallace Fairweather D.L. 1853 - 1939

Wallace Fairweather was born in St Vigeans, Angus in 1853, the son of Wallace Ritchie Fairweather, a grocer and Margaret Gibson. He married Margaret Eureka McIntyre in 1877 and was knighted in 1933.



He worked for a time in the office of Sharp and Smith, a Motherwell firm of sugar brokers, where he was apprenticed as an engineer. He later worked for Mr Hunt, a patent agent, thereafter setting up in business as a Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent with a Mr Thomson on whose death he entered into the partnership of Cruikshank and Fairweather. This firm is still in existence today.



About 1909 Wallace Fairweather purchased the Shaw- Stewart estate in Mearns and commissioned the architectural firm of Burnet and Boston to build Fa?side House, adjacent to the original building. The Shaw- Stewart estate included several farms including Maidenhill and Burnside and it also included Mearns Castle.



Sir Wallace took a keen interest in Newton Mearns and in 1933 he gave ?1000 for the the building of the Fairweather Hall which opened on 25th November 1933 as a social and recreational centre for the village.



He also was very interested in the welfare of young people and in particular the Boy Scout Movement. At the time of his death, he was vice-president of the County of Renfrew Scout Council and Honorary President of the Eastwood Local Association.

Birth

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth		Person ID
1	Pollock, John of Fa'side & Glasgow	1778	Fa'side, Mearns, Renfrewshire, Scotland	I38016