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George Stewart

1897 - 1942

Death of a Prominent Builder

We regret to report the death of a prominent Scottish Building contractor in the person of Mr George Stewart, only son of Mr George Stewart and the late Mrs Stewart of Boweshill, Blantyre, which sad event took place at his residence, Menlo, Bothwell.

He had been laid aside from his usual activities for some time with a very serious illness and passes away last Saturday morning. Mr Stewart was forty-five years of age and was educated at Hamilton Academy . On completing his studies there, he intended entering Glasgow University to study for the medical profession, but at the commencement of the Great War he joined the R.A.M.C. and latterly, as acting sergeant, he went through the whole period of the war. Most of that time he served in the Far East and was mentioned in dispatches. On being demobilised young Mr Stewart, owing to the great development of the business, entered his father’s firm and was the moving spirit in the business, which now enjoys the reputation of being amongst the largest and most prosperous building and contracting concerns in Scotland. For this progress Mr Stewart, Sen., gladly gave the credit to his son.

The firm have carried out large contracts all over Scotland , noticeably at Edinburgh , Fort William , Oban, Perth , Glasgow , Stirling, and in the West of Scotland . One of the firm’s largest contracts was the huge extension to the Dundee City Chambers, which took two and a half years to build, and this work, as were many other jobs carried out under the personal supervision of Mr George Stewart. The many contracts carried out by the firm took Mr Stewart over a wide area, and in building circles he enjoyed the respect and esteem of those engages in that industry.

Mr Stewart leaves his wife and two sons and one daughter to whom deepest sympathy is extended. To his father the loss is an irreparable one, and death has cut short a most promising career.

Ref. Hamilton Advertiser. 1/8/1942. Page 4.

Wilma Bolton. 2005.

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