James Bain (Whitehaven MP)

Sir James Bain of Crofthead (1817–1898) was a Scottish iron-founder who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1874 to 1877.

[1] He was born in Glasgow on 22 January 1817 the son of Robert Bain (died 1838).

He was general manager of William Baird & Co, coal and ironmasters.

[2] He became a town councillor in 1863 and was elected Lord Provost in 1874 and knighted by Queen Victoria in 1877 when he was replaced as Lord Provost by William Collins the famous Scottish publisher..

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