Stewart Clark JP, DL (2 January 1830 – 21 November 1907) was a Scottish businessman and

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politician. Stewart Clark was a thread manufacturing entrepreneur. In the 18th century James and Patrick Clark started a thread business which expanded to the United States in the 19th century. In 1952 the firm merged with J&P Coats forming what has since been renamed the

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. Clark was a Justice of the Peace in

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and was the Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Renfrewshire. Clark was the

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(MP) for Paisley from 1884 to 1885. Stewart Clark lived in

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which he bought in 1899 and had four children including Sir John Stewart-Clark, 1st Baronet of Dundas. The title was taken after Dundas Castle and Clark's son, John, took the double-barrelled surname 'Stewart-Clark' in honour of his father.

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1830 births 1907 deaths UK MPs 1880–1885 Scottish Liberal Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Paisley constituencies 19th-century Scottish businesspeople {{Scotland-business-bio-stub