Samuel Chisholm

Chisholm stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for Glasgow Camlachie in the 1895 general election.

He received criticism for spending rather freely on public receptions and events during his tenure as Lord Provost,[1] and was defeated from the ward in the municipal elections in early November 1902.

[2] Chisholm was noted for a baronetcy in the November 1902 Birthday Honours list,[3] and was created a baronet, of Belhaven-terrace, in the parish of Govan, in the county of the city of Glasgow, and of St. John's Mount, Dunblane, in the parish of Dunblane, in the county of Perth, on 28 November 1902.

[7] Chisholm married in Glasgow on 17 January 1903 Agnes Gieson Carnduff, widow of Thomas Henderson.

Chisholm's initiatives in municipal philanthropy were satirised by Neil Munro in the first of his Erchie MacPherson stories, published in The Glasgow Evening News of 10th February 1902.