John Ure Primrose

Sir John Ure Primrose, 1st Baronet DL LLD (1847–1924) was a Scottish merchant who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1902 to 1905 and as Chairman of Rangers Football Club from 1912 to 1923.

[1] He was born in Glasgow on 6 October 1847 the son of William Primrose and his wife, Annie Ure, both from wealthy merchant-miller families.

He died at his home, Redholme in Dumbreck,[4] on 29 June 1924 and was buried in Craigton Cemetery in south-west Glasgow near Bellahouston Park.

Sir John became a member of Rangers Football Club in August, 1887, the month in which First Ibrox Park was opened.

When William Craig proposed Sir John as successor to James Henderson in 1912, he accepted on the condition it be an interim appointment.

A member Sir John presided at the Club's Jubilee dinner held, a year late, on 9 April, 1923.