Walter Crum FRS (1796–1867) was a Scottish chemist and businessman. He became a

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in 1844.

Life

He was born in

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, the second son of Alexander Crum of

Thornliebank Thornliebank ( Scots: ''Thonliebank'', Scottish Gaelic: ''Bruach nan Dealgan'') is a suburban area in East Renfrewshire, in the west central Lowlands of Scotland. Part of the Greater Glasgow conurbation, it is located on the Auldhouse Burn about s ...

, a merchant there, and of Jane, the eldest daughter of Walter Ewing Maclae; the politician Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing was his younger brother. His sister Margaret Fisher Crum married John Brown as his second wife, and was mother of

Alexander Crum Brown Alexander Crum Brown FRSE FRS (26 March 1838 – 28 October 1922) was a Scottish organic chemist. Alexander Crum Brown Road in Edinburgh's King's Buildings complex is named after him. Early life and education Crum Brown was born at 4 Belle ...

Walter Crum studied at

Anderson's University The University of Strathclyde ( gd, Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, it is Glasgow's second-oldest university, having received its royal chart ...

under Thomas Graham. He then worked for James Thomson for two years before going into the same business, the printing of

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, on his own account. He directed the existing family firm at Thornliebank, already large employers, into dyeing, particularly with

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Crum purchased the Birkenshaw Estate (later Rouken Glen Park). He was an early collector of photographs.

Family

Crum married Jessie, daughter of William Graham. Their children included: * Alexander Crum MP, who married Margaret Stewart (Nina), eldest daughter of Alexander Ewing, and was father of Walter Ewing Crum. *William Graham Crum, who married Jean, youngest daughter of John McLeod Campbell, in 1868. He sold the Rouken Glen Estate to Cameron Corbett in 1904, who gave it to the people of Glasgow. A

printer, he lived for some time at Mere Old Hall near

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, Cheshire, where his son

John Macleod Campbell Crum The Rev. Canon John Macleod Campbell Crum (12 October 1872 - 19 December 1958) was an Anglican priest, author and hymnwriter.''Crockford's Clerical Directory'' (1932), "Crum, John Macleod Campbell", p. 300. Family and education Crum was born at ...

was born, and later at Broxton Old Hall, also in Cheshire. *Elisabeth Graham Crum, who married William Henry Houldsworth. *Margaret Crum who married William Thomson the physicist and engineer, later 1st Baron Kelvin. *Walter Ewing Crum, who was a merchant in Liverpool, married Sara Margaret Tinne in 1873, and died in India in 1882. *Mary Gray, and Jessie.

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