Sir Thomas Charles Dunlop (4 February 1878 – 13 August 1960) was a Scottish first-class cricketer and administrator, newspaper proprietor, and

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officer. The son of William Hamilton Dunlop, he was born at

Ayr Ayr (; sco, Ayr; gd, Inbhir Àir, "Mouth of the River Ayr") is a town situated on the southwest coast of Scotland. It is the administrative centre of the South Ayrshire council area and the historic county town of Ayrshire. With a population ...

in February 1878. Dunlop was educated firstly at

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and latterly at

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. In 1900, he succeeded his uncle, A. B. Gemmell, as the publisher of the ''

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'' following his death, becoming the youngest newspaper proprietor in Scotland. In the same year that he inherited the ''Ayr Advertiser'', he was commissioned into the

as a

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in the

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, with promotion to

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coming in October 1907. A

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er for Ayr Cricket Club, he made a single appearance in

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for

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against the touring Indians at

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in 1911. Playing as a

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in the match, he was dismissed without scoring by Jehangir Warden in the Scotland first innings and made two

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in the Indians first innings. In the military, he was promoted to

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in June 1912. Dunlop served in the

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with the Yeomanry, during which he was promoted to

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in February 1917, with precedence to September 1916. In May 1917, he was decorated by Belgium with the ''

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''. Following the war, was decorated with the

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in May 1920. The following year he relinquished his commission. Dunlop served as president of the

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in 1922. By the late 1920s, Dunlop had returned to the Territorial Army and was promoted to

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in March 1928. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Ayrshire in May 1930 and an aide-de-camp to

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in June 1931. Dunlop retired from the Yeomanry in March 1932, having spent a period in command of a battalion as a

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, retaining his rank. Dunlop mostly left the running of the ''Ayr Advertiser'' to his two long serving editors, Hugh Allan and Thomas Kay, and remained as its sole proprietor until 1938, when the newspaper became a limited company, with Dunlop and William Herbert Dunlop as its directors. During the

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, he was approved as an aide-de-camp to

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. He was later

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for political and public service to Ayrshire in the

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. Dunlop died at Ayrshire in August 1960 and was succeeded as a director at the newspaper by his second son, William H. Dunlop. His grandson is Ian Dunlop, a former writer and art critic for the ''

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''. His uncle was the cricketer George Dunlop.

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