John Smith Samuel

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Sir John Smith Samuel KBE FRSE, FSA (Scot.), DL, JP (1870 – November 1934) was a Scottish local government official. He was ceremonial secretary to the Glasgow Corporation and private secretary to successive Lords Provost of Glasgow for 38 years.

Life

He was born on 2 April 1870.

In 1902 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Magnus Maclean, John Glaister, James Dalrymple Duncan Dalrymple and John Horne.{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2018-05-11|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|url-status=dead}}

From 1903 he served as Secretary to John Ure Primrose. At that time he lived at 8 Park Avenue.Glasgow Post Office Directory 1905

He then consecutively served Sir William Bilsland, Sir Archibald McInnes Shaw, Daniel Macaulay Stevenson, Sir Thomas Dunlop, Sir James Stewart, Sir Thomas Paxton, Sir David Mason and Sir Thomas Kelly.{{Cite web|url = https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=16556|title = Provosts of Glasgow|date = 5 May 2017|access-date = 11 May 2018|archive-date = 26 September 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210926031343/https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=16556|url-status = dead}}

He died in a nursing home in Glasgow on 10 November 1934 following a brief spell of influenza.Scotsman (newspaper) 12 November 1934Scotsman newspaper 6 November 1934

References

Category:1870 births

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Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Category:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland