{{Short description|Scottish chemist and businessman (1796-1867)}} {{for|the Scottish Coptologist|Walter Ewing Crum}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}} {{Use British English|date=April 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Walter Crum | image = Walter Crum. Photogravure by Maclure & Macdonald. Wellcome V0001366.jpg | caption = Walter Crum Photograph | birth_name = Walter Crum | birth_date = 1796 | birth_place = Glasgow, Scotland | death_date = 1867 | death_place = Rouken Glen (near Glasgow), Scotland | occupation = Chemist, industrialist | known_for = Scottish chemist and textile businessman; Fellow of the Royal Society | spouse = Jessie Graham | children = Alexander Crum, William Graham Crum, Elisabeth Graham Crum, Margaret Crum, Walter Ewing Crum, Mary Gray, Jessie Crum | awards = Fellow of the Royal Society (1844) }}
'''Walter Crum''' FRS (1796 – 5 May 1867<ref>{{cite book |last=Bayliss |first=William M. |title=Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Smith, Elder & Co. |year=1885 |volume=13 |page=225 |entry=Crum, Walter |quote=Walter Crum (1796–5 May 1867) was a Scottish chemist and industrialist.}}</ref>) was a Scottish chemist and industrialist. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1844.<ref name=100Men>{{cite book|url=http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/mlemen/mlemen024.htm |title=Memoirs and portraits of 100 Glasgow men |chapter=24. Walter Crum |first=James |last=MacLehose |date=1886 |via=Gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk |accessdate=2016-02-04 |location=Glasgow |publisher=James MacLehose & Sons}}</ref>
==Life== He was born in Glasgow, the second son of Alexander Crum of Thornliebank, a merchant there, and of Jane, the eldest daughter of Walter Ewing Maclae; the politician Humphrey Ewing Crum-Ewing was his younger brother.<ref name=100Men/><ref name="Britain)1868">{{cite book|author=Royal Society (Great Britain)|title=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iyAWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR8|accessdate=26 April 2012|year=1868|page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/stecit/stecit14042.htm |title=Curiosities of Glasgow citizenship |chapter=Walter Ewing |first=George |last=Stewart |date=1881 |via=Gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk |accessdate=2016-02-04 |location=Glasgow |publisher=James Maclehose}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1870londuoft#page/96/mode/2up |title=Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Branch |chapter=An Alphabetical List of the Members of Parliament at the Commencement of the Year 1870 |date=1870 |page=97 |accessdate=2016-02-04}}</ref> His sister Margaret Fisher Crum married John Brown as his second wife, and was mother of Alexander Crum Brown.<ref>{{ODNBweb|id=37229|title=Brown, Alexander Crum|first=Colin A.|last=Russell}}</ref> [[File:Calico sample Crum & Co..jpg|thumb|Calico print by Walter Crum & Co.]] Walter Crum studied at Anderson's University under Thomas Graham.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://atom.lib.strath.ac.uk/walter-crum-papers |title=Collection OM/43 - Walter Crum papers |website=University of Strathclyde Archives and Special Collections, United Kingdom |accessdate=13 July 2020}}</ref> He then worked for James Thomson for two years<ref name=100Men/> before going into the same business, the printing of calico, on his own account. He directed the existing family firm at Thornliebank, already large employers, into dyeing, particularly with Turkey red.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/78573/details/glasgow+thornliebank+general/ |title=Glasgow, Thornliebank, General | Canmore |website=Canmore.rcahms.gov.uk |date= |accessdate=2016-02-04}}</ref> thumb|Map showing Thornliebank, the bleach works, and Rouken Glen Park. Crum purchased the Birkenshaw Estate (later Rouken Glen Park).<ref>{{cite web|title=History |work=Rouken Glen Park |url=http://roukenglenpark.wordpress.com/park/history/ |accessdate=26 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824221901/http://roukenglenpark.wordpress.com/park/history/ |archivedate=24 August 2011 }}</ref> He was an early collector of photographs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.culturalprofiles.net/scotland/units/575.html |title=Scottish National Portrait Gallery |website=Scotland Cultural Profile |date=2007-05-02 |accessdate=2012-04-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013100136/http://www.culturalprofiles.net/scotland/units/575.html |archive-date=2007-10-13 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>
==Family== Crum married Jessie, daughter of William Graham. Their children included:
*Alexander Crum MP, who married Margaret Stewart (Nina), eldest daughter of Alexander Ewing,<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1881londuoft#page/58/mode/2up |title= Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench |chapter=An Alphabetical List of the Members of Parliament at the Commencement of the Year 1881 |date=1881 |accessdate=2016-02-04 |page=58}}</ref> and was father of Walter Ewing Crum.<ref>{{ODNBweb|id=32653|title=Crum, Walter Ewing|first=R. S.|last=Simpson}}</ref> *William Graham Crum, who married Jean, youngest daughter of John McLeod Campbell, in 1868.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/memorialsofjohnm02camp#page/188/mode/2up |title=Memorials of John McLeod Campbell, D.D., being selections from his correspondence |editor=Donald Campbell |location=London |publisher=Macmillan and Co. |date=1877 |page=188 |accessdate=2016-02-04}}</ref> He sold the Rouken Glen Estate to Cameron Corbett in 1904, who gave it to the people of Glasgow.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~davidm/website/history01.htm |title=Rouken Glen - A History in Pictures |website=Personal.cis.strath.ac.uk |date= |accessdate=2016-02-04}}</ref> A calico printer, he lived for some time at Mere Old Hall near Knutsford, Cheshire,<ref>England and Wales census (1881), Mere Old Hall, piece 3511, folio 77, p. 21.</ref> where his son John Macleod Campbell Crum was born, and later at Broxton Old Hall, also in Cheshire.<ref>England and Wales census (1891), Broxton Old Hall, piece 2859, folio 62.</ref> *Elisabeth Graham Crum, who married William Henry Houldsworth.<ref>{{ODNBweb|id=40813|title=Houldsworth, Sir William Henry|first=A. C.|last=Howe}}</ref> *Margaret Crum who married William Thomson the physicist and engineer, later 1st Baron Kelvin.<ref>{{ODNBweb|id=36507|title=Thomson, William|first=Crosbie|last=Smith}}</ref> *Walter Ewing Crum, who was a merchant in Liverpool, married Sara Margaret Tinne in 1873, and died in India in 1882.<ref>{{cite book |author=Family of Douglas |title=The Genealogy of the Families of Douglas of Mulderg and Robertson of Kindeace with their Descendants |date=1895 |pages=31–2 |url=https://archive.org/stream/genealogyoffamil00doug#page/30/mode/2up |publisher=A. M. Ross and Company |location=Dingwall}}</ref> *Mary Gray, and Jessie.<ref>{{cite book|first=Silvanus Phillips|last=Thompson|title=The Life Of Lord Kelvin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t6tLTVb22gsC&pg=PA46|accessdate=26 April 2012|date=June 2006|publisher=American Mathematical Soc.|isbn=978-0-8218-3743-6|page=46|author-link=Silvanus Phillips Thompson}}</ref>
==See also== *Dead cotton
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