Antique Golf Clubs from Scotland: Clubmakers

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Crosthwaite & Lorimer
St Andrews

Andrew Crosthwaite had been in business with David Auchterlonie as Auchterlonie & Crosthwaite from around 1893 or 1894 when they had left the employ of Robert Forgan. About a year after Willie Auchterlonie joined the firm, the Auchterlonie brothers left to start their own business. Crosthwaite joined forces with George Lorimer (b 1864), who had learned his trade as a 13 year old apprentice with Jamie Anderson and later, in 1882, with George Strath in Troon, in 1897 ran the new business from the same premises in North Street.

The advertisement is from 1899, the year, according to Peter Georgiady's Compendium of Club Makers, the partnership dissolved and Crosthwaite continued on his own.

George Lorimer spent twelve years working for Tom Morris then went to D & W Auchterlonie. A piece on him in the Evening Telegraph in August 1920 identified him as the oldest clubmaker still at work in St Andrews. He died in Dundee in 1936, aged 72.

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