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William Maxwell Stewart

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33: 158:"Educated at Allan Glen's and at the University where he studied engineering. he served his apprenticeship with the Clydebank Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (now John Brown & Co) and turning specially to electrical engineering he was afterwards engaged with Clarke, Chapman & Co, Newcastle. Mr Maxwell Stewart was joint founder of the Thermotank Company and the Thermotank Engineering Company. During the war the company made notable work in the making of high explosive shells. The Deacon of the Incorporation of Maltmen is a member of the Electrical Engineers Institute and the Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilders, and of the Scottish Automobile Club in Blythswood Square." 136:(1879-1950) were born to Dalmuir-based railway station agent turned coal merchant William Stewart and his wife Isabella née Sinclair. His parents had married in Grangemouth in 1862; William (senior) then being a groom and son of a William Stewart, a mason in Bathgate, and Isabella Sinclair Stewart who was a daughter of sea captain David Sinclair and his wife Isabella Maxwell. 153:
Beyond work he was appointed in 1922 as the Deacon (also known as Visitor) of the long-established Incorporation of Maltmen in the Trades House Glasgow. An appreciation of him in the Glasgow Bailie magazine of 23 September 1922 describes his career to date:-
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Stewart died in 1926 at home in Lochbrae House, Bearsden; with the younger of his two bachelor brothers continuing to lead the Thermotank businesses. After his elder son, William Alexander Frederick Stewart, died in 1940 age 26 it was his younger son (Sir)
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In 1913 William M Stewart married Jessie Brown of Newlands, Glasgow and settled in Lochbrae House, overlooking St Germain's Loch, Bearsden.
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who revolutionised heating, cooling and ventilation in shipping accommodation, railways, aircraft and public buildings around the world .
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William Maxwell Stewart in 1922 as Deacon-Visitor of the Incorporation of Maltmen, based in the Trades House of Glasgow.
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who would join Thermotank as a director, becoming its chairman on the death of his uncle (Sir)
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He was the middle of three shipbuilding and engineering brothers in
144: 118:(1874-1926) was a Scottish ventilation engineer of distinction. 143:, based in Glasgow with works coming next to the Clyde at 147:
in 1908, and later with branches and agencies overseas.
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Portrait of William Maxwell Stewart
Old Kilpatrick
Scotland
Bearsden
Scotland
Allan Glen's School
Glasgow
Alexander William Stewart
Frederick Charles Stewart
Thermotank
Govan
Iain Maxwell Stewart
Frederick Charles Stewart





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"William Maxwell Stewart"
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