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The grave of Sir Peter Coats, Woodside Cemetery, Paisley He was born in Paisley , the third son of James Coats and Catherine Mitchell, 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.
In 1802 James Coats set up his own weaving in Paisley. In 1826 he opened a cotton mill at Ferguslie to produce his own thread [4] and, when he retired in 1830, his sons, James & Peter, took up the business under the name of J. & P. Coats. [4] In 1890 Coats listed on the London Stock Exchange, [4] with capital of £5.7 million. [4]
The grave of Thomas Coats, Woodside Cemetery, Paisley. Coats was born at Paisley 18 October 1809. He was the fourth of a family of ten sons. His father, James Coats, was one of the founders of the Coats Group of Paisley. In the hands of Thomas and his surviving brother, Sir Peter Coats, the Ferguslie Thread Works became substantial. [1]
The Coats Baronetcy, of Auchendrane in the parish of Maybole in the County of Ayr, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. [1] It was created on 7 December 1905 for James Coats, Director of J. and P. Coats Ltd, sewing cotton manufacturers. The second Baronet represented Wimbledon and East Surrey in the House of Commons as a ...
Sir Peter Coats founder of J & P Coats in Paisley; Robert H. Coats (1874–1960), Canadian statistician; Robert R. Coats (1910–1995), Canadian-American geologist; Stuart Coats (1868–1959), British politician; MP for Wimbledon and East Surrey; Thomas Coats (1809–1893), made Paisley, Scotland, the world center for thread making.
Alfred M. Coats was born in Paisley, Scotland, on April 12, 1869, to James P. Coats, a member of a prominent family in the Scottish textile industry, and to Sarah Ann Auchincloss, whose father traded Coats threads in the United States. [1] Alfred M. Coats lived the majority of his life in the United States, where his parents returned to in 1871 ...
Lieutenant colonel Sir James Stuart Coats, 3rd Baronet MC (13 April 1894 – 26 October 1966) was a British skeleton racer who competed in the late 1940s. He finished seventh in the men's skeleton event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz .
James Cabell Auchincloss (1876–1882) Sarah Ann Auchincloss (1838–1887), ∞ James Coats, 1st Baronet (1834–1913) Stuart Auchincloss Coats, 2nd Baronet (1868–1959), ∞ 1891: Jane Muir Greenlees James Stuart Coats, 3rd Baronet (1894–1966) Alastair Francis Stuart Coats, 4th Baronet (1921–2015) Alexander James Coats, 5th Baronet (b. 1951)