William Dalgleish

Who was William Dalgleish?

Sir William Ogilvy Dalgleish, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish businessman and benefactor.

Dalgleish was Chairman of Baxter Brothers & Co., Dundee. He was the principal benefactor of the medical school of University College, Dundee. He unsuccessfully contested Dundee as a Conservative in the 1892 general election. He was created a baronet, of Errol Park in the parish of Errol and County of Perth, of Mayfield in the parish of Dundee and county of Forfar, of Woodburne and Baltilly in the parish of Ceres and County of Fife, and of Coulin, in the parish of Lochcarron and County of Ross, in 1896. Dalgleish died in December 1913, aged 71, when the baronetcy became extinct.