Charles Augustus Carlow
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{{Infobox person
| name = Charles Augustus Carlow
| post-nominals = FRSE
| birth_date = {{birth date|1878|11|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = Leven, Fife, Scotland
| death_date = {{death date and age|1954|08|13|1878|11|30|df=y}}
| death_place = St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
| occupation = Mining engineer, businessman, philanthropist
| known_for = Owner of Fife Coal Company
| parents =
| relatives = William Lindsay (maternal grandfather)
Sir William Reid (cousin)
| alma_mater = Heriot-Watt College
University of Edinburgh
}}
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.
Life
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.{{Cite book |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |title=Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) |author=C D Waterston |author2=A Macmillan Shearer |publisher=Royal Society of Edinburgh |isbn=090219884X |date=July 2006 |access-date=18 September 2015 |archive-date=24 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf |url-status=dead}}
Family
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.{{Citation |last=Outram |first=Quentin |title=Carlow, Charles Augustus (1878–1954), mining engineer and manager |date=2016-05-26 |url=https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/93821/8/CarlowToOUPtext29October2015.pdf |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/106746 |access-date=}}
Benefactions
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.blaircastle.net/history.htm|title=::: Convalescence :::|website=www.blaircastle.net|access-date=2019-06-14}}
Positions held
- Deputy Lieutenant of Fife.
- Managing Director of the Fife Coal Company Ltd
- Chairman of Shotts Iron Company
- Chairman of Fife and Clackmannan Coal Owners Association
- President of the Institute of Mining Engineers
- President of the Mining Institute of Scotland
- Fellow of the Institute of Fuel
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- President of the Association of Mining Electrical Engineers
- Chairman of the Transport Committee of Scottish Coal Owners{{cite web|url=http://www.dmm.org.uk/whoswho/c014.htm|title=Durham Mining Museum - Charles Augustus Carlow|first=Durham Mining|last=Museum|website=www.dmm.org.uk}}
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Category:People from Leven, Fife
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:Scottish mining engineers
Category:Scottish businesspeople
Category:Alumni of Heriot-Watt University
Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Category:Scottish philanthropists
Category:British businesspeople in the coal industry
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