[2] An interest in philanthropy led him into politics and first contested North Warwickshire in 1884 at the age of 28.
In the same year, he served as president of the Scottish Permissive Bill and Temperance Association.
[5] During the First World War, Elsie was a VAD, and served as an ambulance driver with the Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Service.
[6] Her photograph appears on the front page of the Daily Record of 25 December 1915, noting that she was still in Serbia.
Their previous Scottish home at Rouken Glen was donated to the citizens of Glasgow as a public park.