Ferdinand Faithfull Begg

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

(middle name sometimes spelt Faithful; 27 December 1847 in

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– 4 December 1926 in

Hove Hove is a seaside resort and one of the two main parts of the city of Brighton and Hove, along with Brighton in East Sussex, England. Originally a "small but ancient fishing village" surrounded by open farmland, it grew rapidly in the 19th cen ...

, Sussex) was a Scottish

stockbroker A stockbroker is a regulated broker, broker-dealer, or registered investment adviser (in the United States) who may provide financial advisory and investment management services and execute transactions such as the purchase or sale of stocks an ...

and Unionist politician. He served as Chairman of the

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(1885–87) and Chairman of the London Chamber of Commerce (1912–15). He was Senior Partner of Faithfull Begg & Co Stockbrokers in London (1887–1913). He was

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for Glasgow St Rollox from 17 July 1895, to 4 October 1900.

Private life

He was born in

the son of Rev James Begg DD and Maria Faithful. He was privately educated. In 1873 he married Jessie Maria Cargill (d.1925). They had several children, including Francis Cargill Begg, Maria Faithfull Palmer, Jessie Begg, Elizabeth Begg and James Begg. He died in

Hove, Sussex Hove is a seaside resort and one of the two main parts of the city of Brighton and Hove, along with Brighton in East Sussex, England. Originally a "small but ancient fishing village" surrounded by open farmland, it grew rapidly in the 19th c ...

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* * 1847 births 1926 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Glasgow constituencies UK MPs 1895–1900 19th-century Scottish businesspeople 19th-century Scottish politicians Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh British stockbrokers Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912) Politicians from Edinburgh Businesspeople from Edinburgh {{Conservative-UK-MP-1840s-stub