£loo,ooo MANSION GIFT TO SCOTTISH TEMPERANCE ALLIANCE
A £IOO,OOO Mansion, Gean House, Alloa, has been given by Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Forrester-Paton, to the Scottish Temperance Alliance as a conference, holiday and recreation centre. With the mansion go 22 acres of gardens and woodlands, furnishings, and £2,500 to form the nucleus of an endowment fund. Announcing the gift
at an Alliance Meeting in Glasgow’, the chairman, Mr. Duncan McLennan, launched an appeal for £IO,OOO needed to equip and adapt the house. “The Temperance Movement in Scotland has long awaited the time when it would own a centre such as this,” he said. “All organisations connected with social welfare will be allowed to use it, and I call on these
organisations to help to raise the money needed for its upkeep.” Lntii the Mansion is officially opened to guests this summer, it will cost the Alliance between £3O and £4O to maintain. The mansion, built in 1912, was a wedding present to Mr. Alexander Forrester-Paton. from his father Mr. Forrester-Paton is chairman of Paton and Baldwin, the Alloa woollen firm, and is a brother-in-law to Mrs. John Forrester Paton, President of the World Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
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White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 7, 1 August 1950, Page 1
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196£l00,000 MANSION GIFT TO SCOTTISH TEMPERANCE ALLIANCE White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 7, 1 August 1950, Page 1
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