Robert Lindsay Galloway (22 February 1844 – 24 February 1908) was a Scottish mining engineer and author, the son of William Galloway (1799–1854), a Paisley shawl manufacturer and coal master and Margaret Lindsay (1818–1902) daughter of Thomas Lindsay, a

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brewer. He was born in Paisley, Scotland

Family

Galloway was the younger brother of

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, mining engineer and professor of mining at the

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. He married Elizabeth Baird, daughter of James Baird, farmer from Sorn in

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on 14 November 1871. They had two sons, William Galloway born 1872 in Newcastle and James Baird Galloway born in 1874 at

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. His wife and younger son died in 1875 and his son William was brought up by his maternal grandparents in Sorn, and became a farmer before moving to

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. His half-brother John Galloway who lived in Ayrshire, and younger brothers,

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and James Jack Galloway of Glasgow, were also coal masters. John's son James William Galloway, coalmaster in Ayrshire, and Sir William's son Christian Francis John Galloway, a mining engineer and author in Cardiff were the only members of the next generation to continue in the industry. Robert Galloway died in Scotland on 24 February 1908 at Bridge of Allan, in Stirlingshire. He is buried in the churchyard at

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north-east of the church.

Mining career

When Galloway was 27 he was a mining engineer and coal master employing five men in 1871 at Sorn in Ayrshire. After he married he moved to

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and qualified as a certificated colliery manager and became a member of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers at Ryton on Tyne on 6 December 1873. While he was a

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and colliery manager in the Newcastle area and in Scotland, he became known as a historian specialising in writing about the mining industry and the

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Literary career

On 30 April 1879 Galloway presented 'Earliest records connected with the working of coal on the banks of the River Tyne' to a meeting of the

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. In 1880 his book 'The Steam Engine and its Inventors' was published. Two years later his 'A History of Coal Mining in Great Britain' was printed. Galloway helped organize a mining exhibition between 1–24 September 1885 at Burnbank Drill Halls,

and he wrote a 'Review of the Progressive Improvements of Mining in Scotland' as an introduction to the exhibition catalogue.Introduction to 1970 edition of 'Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade' Vol.

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of the

were published.

References

Bibliography

* Galloway R.L
''The Steam Engine and its Inventors''
Macmillan, 1881 * Galloway Robert L. 'Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade'. Vol I. The Colliery Guardian Company Limited, London 1898, David & Charles (Publishers) Ltd 1971

* Galloway Robert L. 'Annals of Coal Mining and the Coal Trade' Vol II. The Colliery Guardian Company Limited, London 1904, David & Charles (Publishers) Ltd. 1971

* Galloway Robert Lindsa
''A History of Coal Mining in Great Britain''
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