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James Thomson Tullis, 1842-1910

Nationality: Scottish
Date of Birth: 1842
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Date of Death: 1910.10.21
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Identity:

James Thomson Tullis, JP, was a tanner and leather merchant.

Life:

Tullis was admitted in 1886 as an original lay member of Glasgow Art Club, and was among those Glasgow painters and architects who in 1891 appended their names to a list requesting that the Corporation of Glasgow buy JW's Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle (YMSM 137) (#12326).

He was Chairman of St Mungo's College from 1903-1910, a Glasgow town councillor, and was Deputy Lieutenant of Glasgow. His address was The Anchorage, Burnside.

Bibliography:

Glasgow contemporaries at the dawn of the XXth century, 1909; Bell, Peter, Who was Who in Edwardian Scotland, Edinburgh, 1986.