OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3119, 25 June 1917, Page 4

OBITUARY

ME. EOBBET GLENDINING. By MecrapU-Press Association. Dunedin, June 23. The death ie announced of Mr. Eobert Glendining, of the firm o£ Boss.,and Glendining, aged sevens-five yeaw./ • Among other benefactions, Mr. Glendining |ave the Winter Gardens to the city some years ago. The death of Mr. Eobert Glendining removed a man who has for many years loomed very large in the public eye m the south, and one to whom the city ot Dunedin owes a great deal, ne was well known throughout the Doinuuon as one of the founders of.the firm of Messrs. Boss and Glendining, .and a wccnition of his business capacity, kindly and liberal benefactions enjoyed 1 W Tne E late Mr.'Glendining was. a_ native of Dumfries, Scotland, and was tornM 18i2 On the completion of a public school education in his native town, ne served his apprenticeship to the drapery traae. In 1862 lie took passage by the ship Evening Star for Dunedin where . a great many of Ms countrymen had alreldy formed a settlement friwnsfc of the same year he and Mr. Jotaßw entered into partnership for the P of establishing a drapery business, under their mana-ement rapidly grow Ssize. Four yeas later the ; founded business ,was acquired by Messib. Brown, Bwing and.Co., «£«"%s£ wards Mr. Glendining and his partner Cded the present thriving and ex ainmm , le The'late Mr. Glendining was married ;■ in Melbourne fifty years ago, and he • leaves a family of two sons and two ilnugliters.