Charles Augustus Carlow

Charles Augustus Carlow FRSE DLitt LLD (30 November 1878 – 13 August 1954) was a leading Scottish mining engineer and owner and managing director of the Fife Coal Company Ltd., that was based in Leven, Fife.
Life.
Carlow was born at 2 Links Place in Leven, Fife on 30 November 1878 to Mary Weatherstone (née Lindsay; 1851-1929), daughter of William Lindsay, a shipowner, and Charles Carlow (1849-1923) a mining engineer. He studied mining technology at Heriot-Watt College and the University of Edinburgh.
The bulk of his life seems to have been spent living in Leven, Fife.
In 1952 he was awarded an honorary doctorate (LLD) from the University of St Andrews. He died in St Andrews in Fife on 13 August 1954.
Family.
He was the maternal grandson of William Lindsay FRSE (1819-1884).
He was first cousin to Sir Charles Carlow Reid co-author with his son, Sir William Reid of the "Reid Report" on the state of British coal-mining.
Benefactions.
In 1927 he gave Blair House and 27 acres of ground near Culross in Fife to serve as a convalescent home for elderly and injured miners. The home is named for him as Charles Carlow Miners Convalescent Home.
Positions held.
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