George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar (11 February 1849 – 26 November 1918), was a Scottish cotton manufacturer.
[1] In 1916 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Glentanar, of Glen Tanar in the County of Aberdeen.
According to his will written in on 2 April 1919, his total estate net worth had been quoted with at £4,334,224 and twelve shillings (equivalent to £266,700,000 in 2023).
The elder daughter, the Honourable Lilian Maud, married the 5th Duke of Wellington, while the younger daughter, the Honourable Charlotte Margaret, married as her first husband William Walrond.
[5] A monument to his memory was erected in 1919 in St Thomas's Episcopal Church in Aboyne designed by Sir Robert Lorimer.