George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar (11 February 1849 – 26 November 1918), was a Scottish cotton manufacturer.

Background

Coats was the son of Thomas Coats and Margaret Glen, daughter of Thomas Glen, of Thornhill Johnstone,

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. He was the younger brother of

Sir Thomas Glen-Coats, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Glen Glen-Coats, 1st Baronet, (19 February 1846 – 12 July 1922) was a Scottish businessman and Liberal Party politician. Glen-Coats was a Director of the thread-making firm of J. & P. Coats. He was created a Baronet, of Ferguslie ...

, and a first cousin of

Sir James Coats, 1st Baronet The Coats Baronetcy, of Auchendrane in the parish of Maybole in the County of Ayr, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 7 December 1905 for James Coats, Director of J. and P. Coats Ltd, sewing cotton manufacture ...

Business career

Coats was the owner of a cotton firm in Paisley. He acquired the Glen Tanar Estate in

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in 1905. In 1916 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Glentanar, of Glen Tanar in the County of Aberdeen. He owned the Belleisle estate near

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, Aberdeenshire for over 30 years until 1918, when it was sold for £25,000. According to his will written in on 2 April 1919, his total estate net worth had been quoted with at £4,334,224 and twelve shillings ().

Family

Lord Glentanar married Margaret Lothian Black, daughter of James Tait Black, of Underscar, Keswick,

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. They had one son and two daughters. The elder daughter, the Honourable Lilian Maud, married the 5th Duke of Wellington, while the younger daughter, the Honourable Charlotte Margaret, married as her first husband William Walrond. He died in November 1918, aged 69, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son,

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. Lady Glentanar died in July 1935. A monument to his memory was erected in 1919 in St Thomas's Episcopal Church in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Glentanar, George Coats, 1st Baron 1849 births 1918 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Barons created by George V People from Aboyne