Some obits.
The Scotsman, 25 October, 1937.
LATE MR A. WALLACE MACGREGOR, W.S.
Former Well-Known Tennis Player and Administrator.
THE death occurred on Saturday in Hawick Cottage Hospital of Mr A. Wallace Macgregor, LL.B., W.S., 19 Linden Terrace, Hawick, a former noted tennis player in Scotland, and a prominent figure in the administration of the game. Mr Macgregor, who was admitted a W.S. in 1892, partnered C. R. D. Pritchett in winning the men's doubles in the Scottish championships in 1900 and 1902, while in 1903 he and F. W. Payn were the winners. In 1905, 1906, 1907, and 1909 he and A. M. Mackay were the winners. He also won the mixed doubles in 1903 along with Miss Stoltz, and in 1910 along with Mrs Larcombe, Mr Macgregor also won the men's singles on several occasions in the South of Scotland Tournament, and was in the winning pair in the men's and mixed doubles. He played for Scotland against Belgium in 1914. Taking a keen interest in all lawn tennis matters, Mr Macgregor was for long secretary of the East of Scotland Lawn Tennis Association, and later of the Scottish Lawn Tennis Association, of which he was a past president. About two years ago he was elected an honorary life vice-President of the Scottish Association.
London Times, 9 July, 1930.
SIR REGINALD GAMBLE.
INDIAN FINANCE.
Sir Reginald Gamble, whose death at the age of 68 after a long illness is announced, was a former Comptroller and Auditor-General in India. With many years' experience of Indian finance he had served too for four years after his retirement from the Indian Civil Service as chief inspector to the Chinese Government Salt-Revenue Department. He was a keen sportsman.
A son of Lieutenant-General D. G. Gamble, C.B., Reginald Arthur Gamble was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he won his Blue for tennis. Passing the Indian Civil Service examination of 1881, he was posted to the Bombay Presidency, but after a few years' novitiate was transferred to the Financial Department of the Government of India as Assistant Comptroller of Indian Treasuries. He went to the Punjab in 1897 as Accountant-General, and he continued to serve over the entire area after the North-West Frontier districts were made a separate Province nearly 30 years ago. From August, 1905, he acted as Commissioner of the Northern India Salt Revenue, and was confirmed in the appointment in 1907. The work was suited to his tastes as offering opportunities for good big game shooting without unduly limiting his practice at tennis, in which he long held the Bengal and Punjab championships. He was also a keen fisherman, and in later years was often in Scotland salmon-fishing with his old friend and colleague, Sir Richard Dane.
In 1914 the Secretary of State for India selected Sir Reginald for the responsible and independent position of Comptroller and Auditor-General in India. He was made an additional member of the Governor-General's Legislative Council in 1916, and was knighted in the following year. He retired in the summer of 1918, feeling severely the loss in the War of his only son, who was an officer in the Guards and had been the tutor of the Crown Prince of Belgium. Sir Reginald married in 1892 Jennie, one of the daughters (a widow) of Dr. Samuel Coates, of the I. M.S. Their daughter is married to the colonel of a British regiment now serving in India. Lady Bolton, wife of the ex-Chief Commissioner of the Frontier Province, is a step-daughter.
There’s a tree for the Glenny family two thirds of the way down on this page. Note the birth of Charles in 1871.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/j.d.little/family/Wigham.htmlInfo gleaned from the Scotsman:
In1934, Eileen Ifra (Ilfra?) Wilson Glenny, married Irvine Ewart Chalmers Watson. The father, C. J. Glenny, of Deanfield, was head of the firm of Wilson & Glenny (Ltd), tweed manufacturers, Hawick. In December that same year, Nora, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles James Glenny, Deanfield, Hawick, became engaged to Robert Archibald Vivian Grieve. (He was later KIA in WW2). In 1937 a son of C. J. Glenny, Roland Crosfield Glenny, married Doris Mary Fairgrieve.
The Times, London, 6 September, 1961.
DEATHS.
GLENNY.—On Sept. 5th, 1961, his 90th birthday, Charles James Glenny, late of Deanfield, Hawick, Scotland.
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