William George Black

He was formerly a member of the Committee of Management of the Philip Stott College (Unionist Association), and was chairman of the Glasgow Good Government League.

He was a trustee and a member of the executive of the Navy League and chairman of the Glasgow and West of Scotland branch.

He wrote other works on folk-medicine, Glasgow archaeology, and a description of Heligoland and the islands of the North Sea.

His wife's young nephews and nieces found him a tedious adult visitor to their home and they invented this irreverent ditty which could be sung to the tune of "The Ash Grove".

"Rejected by Heaven, From Hell given the sack, He came back to Earth, As William George Black"