Erskine Beveridge

Erskine Beveridge FRSE FSAScot (27 December 1851 – 10 August 1920) was a Scottish textile manufacturer, historian and antiquary.

He travelled extensively in Scotland, taking numerous photographs and publishing several scholarly books on Scottish history and archaeology.

Notably, Beveridge tapped the large North American market and eventually opened a New York warehouse.

By 1903, Erskine Beveridge & Co. Ltd. was a world leader in fine linen and had three branch factories in addition to its primary works in Dunfermline.

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland holds about 500 of his original glass plate photographic negatives.