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Douglas McEwan
Musselburgh/Ilkley
Douglas McEwan was born in Musselburgh on 16 March 1869 to Peter McEwan and his wife Ann née Hutchison. He took over running of the family firm in 1895 on the death of his father. The previous August he had married Janet Finlayson in Musselburgh. The Musselburgh business, though, ran smoothly enough (and, on his assuming control, the shop at Bruntsfield was taken over by the former McEwan foreman, Frank Doleman) that he could still carry out professional engagements around the country.

He took over from Tom Vardon at Ilkley in 1900 where he served until 1903. In 1905 he became the first professional at Worthing, earning £1 per week, where, with the secretary, he laid out the first nine-hole course.

He moved to the Leasowe club on the north coast of the Wirral peninsula in October 1909 and he appears on the 1911 census at Leasowe GC and living with his wife, Janet, daughter Annie and 16 year old son Peter, described as a golfclub maker’s assistant. McEwan remained their until the end of the First World War and a final post at Woolton in Liverpool.

He died in Preston in 1921.

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