Scottish brewers

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John MacKay Bernard

John MacKay Bernard of Dunsinnan and Buttergask FRSE (1857–1919) was a Scottish brewer, philanthropist and noted amateur meteorologist. He was President of the Scottish Meteorological Society 1912 to 1915.

He was born the son of Thomas Bernard (d.1874) of the Edinburgh brewing company of Thomas and James Bernard Brewers Ltd. founded in 1840. They operated from 71 North Back in the Canongate. The family lived in a luxurious house at 8 Leopold Place.

On his father’s death in 1874 (aged only 17) he inherited the company along with his older brother Daniel Bernard. John decided to attend university to better his knowledge and graduated BSc form Edinburgh University in 1887.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1887 due to his contributions to meteorology. His proposers were Sir Thomas Jamieson Boyd, Andrew Peebles Aitken, Alexander Crum Brown and David Alan Stevenson. At this time he was living at 25 Chester Street in Edinburgh’s West End.

In 1888 they relocated to Slateford Road to a custom built brewery designed by the Edinburgh architect Hippolyte Blanc in 1887. A dispute with Daniel in 1889 caused Daniel to set up alone in a new brewery at Gorgie. The Slateford premises were then renamed Thomas and James Bernard Brewery Ltd (the original brewery name) in 1895

The company survived until 1960 when it was taken over by Scottish Brewers Ltd.

He owned estates in Perthshire near Dunsinane Hill (Dunsinnan House). His family coat-of-arms was a rampant bear, muzzled.

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James Boag I

James Boag I (c. 1804 – 1890) was the founder and proprietor of J. Boag & Sons, owner of the Boag's Brewery in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

Boag was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He emigrated to Australia with his wife and four children in 1853, and arrived in Tasmania after three months in the Victorian gold fields. He worked at several local breweries before entering into partnership with his son James Boag II to run Esk Brewery. The brewery later became what is now known as Boag's Brewery.

He died at age 86 in Melbourne. His remains were transported to Launceston, Tasmania for the Funeral Service, which was held at St Andrew's Church. The cortege comprised a very large number of followers according to a report in The Examiner.

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James Eadie

James Eadie (1827–1904) was a Scottish brewer who founded an eponymous brewery in Burton on Trent which operated for 90 years.

Eadie was born at Blackford, Perthshire one of the 14 children of William Eadie and his wife Mary Stewart and was baptised on 12 Jan 1827. His father had founded a small brewhouse at Blackford in the early 19th century as part of a posting hotel with livery stables on Moray Street. In 1842 Eadie moved to Fazeley. Staffordshire where an uncle was a tea dealer. He began a business supplying malt to brewers around Fazeley and extended the business to cover Burton on Trent. In 1854 Eadie established a brewery in Cross Street Burton. By 1891 Eadie was living at Barrow Hall, Barrow-upon-Trent. He also acquired an estate in Scotland at Glenrinnes, Banffshire He became Deputy Lieutenant of Banffshire on 24 May 1900 and in 1902 erected a monument near Favillar, Moray in commemoration of the coronation of King Edward VII.

Eadie's sons, John Eadie and William Eadie, both played cricket for Derbyshire.

The James Eadie company grew successfully from its establishment in 1854 and continued as a private concern until it was registered in 1893. The Cross Street brewery was visited by Alfred Barnard and written up in his book "Noted breweries of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2, 1889. Barnard also reveals how Mr James Eadie had inherited, from his father, a recipe for a Scotch Whisky Blend which he describes as 'an ancient Scotch mixture' that was dispensed to a favoured few. However like other Burton breweries at the time, the company ran into financial difficulties and had to be restructured in 1896. The company, with its brewery and several hundred public houses was acquired by Bass Ratcliffe and Gretton in 1933.

Scotch whisky has been bottled under the name "James Eadie" since 2015.

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Stenhard Landale

Dr Stenhard Ernest Andrew Landale FRSE OBE JP MIEE (1905-1977) was a British businessman, with a background in electrical engineering and agriculture. He served as Director of William Younger & Co, brewers from 1950 to 1971. He established the company Landale Farms Limited in Scotland. In business he is often referred to as S. E. A. Landale.

He trained as an electrical engineer at Faraday House in London and after some training at Bruce Peebles & Co. Ltd. he worked at the Wireless Research facility at Cambridge then from 1930 to 1932 on the design staff of Marconi’s International Marine Company. In 1931 he inherited the impressive property of Cranshaws Castle in Berwickshire together with the estate of Witchester nearby.

He began lecturing in Engineering Science at Oxford University in 1932. In 1935 he moved to William Younger & Co, brewers in Edinburgh as their Technical Director. In 1951 he became full Director of the entire company. In 1939 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Pickering Kendall, James Cameron Smail, Maurice Say and C. T. R. Wilson.

In the Second World War he served as Superintendent Scientist overseeing Radar for the Admiralty. He was created a Companion of the Order of the British Empire in 1944 for his services.

He died at his home at Witchester in rural Berwickshire and is buried in the churchyard at Duns.

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William McEwan

William McEwan

William McEwan (/məˈkjuːᵻn/) (16 July 1827 – 12 May 1913) was a Scottish politician and brewer. He founded the Fountain Brewery in 1856, served as a member of parliament (MP) from 1886 to 1900, and funded the construction of the McEwan Hall at the University of Edinburgh.

McEwan was born in Alloa, Scotland in 1827, the third child of ship-owner John McEwan and his wife Anne Jeffrey. His older sister Janet married James Younger head of his local family brewing business in 1850. He was educated at Alloa Academy. He worked for the Alloa Coal Company and merchants Patersons.

He worked in Glasgow for a commission agent and then as a bookkeeper for a spinning firm in Yorkshire

From 1851 he received technical and management training from his uncles, John and David Jeffrey, proprietors of the Heriot brewery in Edinburgh. In 1856 he established the Fountain Brewery at Fountainbridge in Edinburgh with money from his mother and his uncle, Tom Jeffrey. After growing sales in Scotland, his nephew William Younger of Alloa began an apprenticeship with him and eventually became managing director. Exports were made to Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and India, with McEwan's having 90% of sales in north-eastern England by the turn of the century. The brewery became part of Scottish & Newcastle.

McEwan became a member of parliament for Edinburgh Central after the 1886 general election, representing the Liberal Party. He was returned unopposed in 1895 and continued to serve until 1900. He became a Privy Counsellor in 1907, but declined a title.

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Andrew Barclay Walker

Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, 1st Baronet (15 December 1824 – 27 February 1893) was a brewer and Liverpool Councillor.

Walker was born the son of Peter Walker at Auchinflower, Ayrshire, and was educated at Ayr Academy and at the Liverpool Institute.

He followed his father into brewing. In 1879, on the death of his father, he gained control of the business and in 1890 he turned it into a public company, Walkers of Warrington. Several pubs in Liverpool and the northwest of England still carry the slogan "Walkers Warrington Ale" in their frosted glass.

He was a Justice of the Peace for Ayrshire and a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire. He was elected Lord Mayor of Liverpool for 1873 and 1876 and appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1886–87.

He married Eliza, the eldest daughter of John Reid, of Limekilns, Fife. They had 6 sons and two daughters, including John Reid Walker and William Walker, 1st Baron Wavertree (both renowned racehorse breeders).

His youngest daughter Ethel Lisette married on 3rd February 1897 the 9th. Earl of Kingston in 1897, and they took up residence in Kilronan Castle, Co. Roscommon. Sir Andrew later married Maude Okeover, the daughter of Haughton Charles Okeover; they had no children.

He built the Walker Art Gallery which is named after him and donated it to the City of Liverpool. For this, and other good works, he was knighted in 1877 and created Baronet Walker, of Gateacre, co. Lancaster in 1886.

Sir Andrew Barclay Walker was a great yachtsman. He owned a number of yachts including the 'Cubona', a mermaid which he sailed at the North Shannon Yacht Club in Ireland.

He presented a trophy known as the Barclay Walker Challenge Cup for Half Deckers, Colleens and Half raters

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Answer 7

George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie

George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie

George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie Bt (13 October 1851 – 29 April 1929) was a British politician.

George Younger was born on 13 October 1851. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy.

Younger left college at the age of 17 on his father's death to run the family brewery of George Younger and Son, the business founded by his great-grandfather, George Younger (baptised 17 February 1722), of Alloa, Clackmannanshire. He became chairman in 1897.

Younger was a Deputy Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire from November 1901, and an elected Unionist MP for Ayr Burghs from 1906 until 1922. He was also Chairman of the Unionist Party Organisation from 1916 to 1923, and Treasurer of the Unionist Party in 1923. He was created a baronet on 12 July 1911, and a viscount — as the 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie — on 20 February 1923.

Younger died on 29 April 1929. One of his great-grandsons was the politician George Younger (1931–2003), 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Secretary of State for Scotland from 1979 to 1986, and Secretary of State for Defence from 1986 to 1989.

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Answer 8

William McEwan Younger

Sir William McEwan Younger, 1st Baronet (6 September 1905 – 15 April 1992) was a Scottish brewer and political activist.

His father, William Younger, was a brother of George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger, and of Robert Younger, Baron Blanesburgh; his great uncle was William McEwan, a Liberal MP for Edinburgh and the founder of McEwan's Brewery.

He was educated at Winchester College and at Balliol College, Oxford, before joining the firm of McEwan's Brewery, which later became Scottish Brewers before merging with the Newcastle Brewery Company in 1961 to become Scottish & Newcastle. Younger was the first chairman and managing director of the new company.

He stood twice as the Unionist Party candidate for the West Lothian at the 1950 general election, but it was a safe seat for Labour and he came a poor second. He was honorary secretary of the Scottish Unionist Association from 1955 to 1964, and was later chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party from 1971 to 1974.

He was made a Baronet in February 1964, of Fountainbridge, in the County and City of Edinburgh; the title became extinct on his death. He was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh in 1984.

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