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Sir Peter Coats of Auchendrane FRSE DL (1808-1890) was a Scottish thread manufacturer and philanthropist of note. He was co-founder of the firm J & P Coats which later evolved into Coats plc. ==Life== He was born on 18 July 1808〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=- Person Page 5511 )〕 in Paisley and is deeply associated with that town. He attended Paisley Grammar School and then the University of Glasgow, at first intending to study for as a minister. However he decided to follow his father, James Coats, as a thread manufacturer (largely in partnership with his younger brother Thomas Coats). In 1850 he had a large mansion, Woodside House, built for him in Paisley. This was designed by Charles Wilson.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Woodside House )〕 He was knighted in 1869.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Peter Coats )〕 Following his wife’s death in 1877 he retired to Auchedrane near Maybole in Ayrshire, and lived there for more than twenty years. He is fondly remembered in Maybole.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SIR PETER COATS )〕 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1881. His proposers were Sir Daniel Macnee, Sir Archibald Geikie, Alexander Buchan and Robert Mackay Smith.〔https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 He died in the Mustapha Superieur quarter of Algiers on 9 March 1890 aged 81. His body was returned to Paisley for burial in Woodside Cemetery, west of the town centre. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sir Peter Coats」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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