Findlay Muirhead (1860 - 1935)

Born 9 Mar 1860 in Glasgow, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Blanshard (Clench) Muirhead — married 28 Jun 1894 in St Pancras, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 15 May 1935 at age 75 in London, England

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Biography

MUIRHEAD, Findley: M.A. (Edin.); Original Editor of the Blue Guides; b. Glasgow, 1860; s. [son] of J.J. Muirhead, J.P., and Isabella Fullarton of Edinburgh; m. 1894, Mary Blanshard (d. 1926). e.d. [eldest daughter] of L. M. Clench, Barrister, St. Mary's, Ontario; one s. [son]. Educ.: Royal High School and University of Edinburgh; Leipzig University. Aboned the study of law for journalism and general literary work; joined the Staff of Baedeker's Handbooks, 1887, and until 1914 was Joint-Editor of the English volumes in that series; on the foundation of Muirhead Guide-Books, Ltd.,1915, became Organiser and Editor of the Blue Guides, and in 1918 published the first edition of the Blue Guide to London; since then has edited twenty other Blue Guide to London; since then has edited twenty other Blue Guides, viz., England, Belgium, Paris, Wales. North-Eastern France, Switzerland, the French Alps, Northern Italy, Normandy, Brittany, Southern Italy, Southern France, North-Western France, Scotland, Southern Spain, Northern Spain, Great Britain, Seventy Miles around London, Holland and the Rhine, and a shorter London; Kings without Crowns, 1887; translation of Zehden's Commercial Geography, 1889; retired from editorship, 1931. Address: 86 Portsdown Road, W.9. T. : Cunningham 2067. (Died 15 May 1935.) From "WHO WAS WHO, 1929-1940", page 980.

Sources

• Fullarton Research by William Archibald Fullarton, copy held in Kim Wolf.

• 1861 Scotland Census [database on-line]: Blythswood Registration District, Glasgow Barony Civil Parish, Lanarkshire County, Scotland, Enumeration District 34, Registration Number 644/6, 224 Renfrew St., Household Schedule Number 44,, Line 16.

• 1871 Scotland Census [database on-line]: Newington, Edinburgh St Cuthberts Civil Parish, Midlothian County, Scotland, Enumeration District 74, Registration Number 685/5, Mayfield Tersa, Household Schedule Number 61, Page 17, Line 2.

• 1881 Scotland Census [database on-line]: St Giles, Edinburgh St Giles Civil Parish, Midlothian County, Scotland, Enumeration District 23, Registration Number 685/4, Ramsay Lodge, Household Schedule Number 11, Page 4, Line 14.

• 1891 England Census [database on-line]: Hampstead Civil Parish, St James Ecclesiastical Parish, London County, England, Enumeration District 29, Piece 111, Folio 129, Page 29.

• 1901 England Census [database on-line]: Willesden Civil Parish, Christchurch Ecclesiastical Parish, Middlesex County, England, Hendon Registration District, Enumeration District 59, Piece 1224, Folio 110, Page 48, Household Schedule Number 257.

• 1911 England Census [database on-line]: Willesden Civil Parish, Middlesex County, England, Registration District Willesden, Resistration District Number 129, Enumeration District 76, Piece 7056, 21 Staverton Rd, Brondesbury Park N W, Household Schedule Number 93.

• UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 [database on-line]: London, England Port of Departure, Departure Date 27 Apr 1928, Gibraltar Port of Arrival, S.S. Macedonia.

• England & Wales, Death Index, 1916-2007 [database on-line]: Paddington, London County, England, Volume 1a, Page 28, Resistration Date June 1935.

• England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966 [database on-line]: London, England, Probate Date 22 June 1935.

• My Thompson Family Genealogy [1]