Sir John Muir, 1st Baronet

Sir John Muir, 1st Baronet DL JP (1828–1903) was a Scottish businessman who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1889 to 1892.

Due to the American Civil War the company had to relocate the main source of cotton to India in 1871.

[2] The company's Indian headquarters were at Dalhousie Square in Calcutta, alongside the government buildings.

[4] Muir was elected Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1889 and created a baronet by Queen Victoria in October 1892, his final year in office.

By his final years Finlay Muir & Co had 90,000 employees worldwide, one of the largest companies ever.

He is buried in the remote rural burial ground of Kincardine-in Menteith, south-east of Deanston and west of Blair Drummond.