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David Chalmers, styled David Chalmers of Redhall, FRSE FSA (1820–1899) was a Scottish industrialist. He was heavily involved in paper manufacture, founding his own company of David Chalmers & Co,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Coplan-Crossby - Scottish Book Trade Index (SBTI) - National Library of Scotland )〕 and by the late 19th century was the sole owner of Cowan & Co Paperworks. ==Life== He was born in Glasgow in 1820 the son of Charles Chalmers, founder of Merchiston Castle School in south-west Edinburgh. Consequently he was educated at that school, and then at Edinburgh University. In 1860 he is shown as owning the paper-mill of Katesmill in Colinton, Edinburgh. He lived adjacent, in Kate's Mill House.〔http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8367042〕 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1866. In later life he lived in Redhall House in south-west Edinburgh, where he also ran a papermill.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Connected Histories )〕 He died on 2 May 1899. 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「David Chalmers (Scottish industrialist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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