William Wadell
William Wadell ( -1935)
1935 Obituary [1]
WILLIAM WADDELL MCCOSH died at his home, Easter Moffat, Plains, near Airdrie, Lanarkshire, on March 17, 1935.
Mr. McCosh was a son of the late Provost McCosh of Coatbridge and was educated at Cambridge. Later, he became one of the principals in the firm of William Baird & Co., Ltd., Gartsherrie Ironworks, and devoted most of his time to the interests of this concern.
He was also a director of Baird's Mining Co., Ltd., and the Caledonian Portland Cement Co., Ltd.
He served a period on the Coatbridge Town Council and was a magistrate when he retired from that body; at the time of his death he was President of the North Lanark Unionist Association.
He joined the Iron and Steel Institute in 1909.