Alexander Crawford Lamb
Alexander Crawford Lamb was a Scottish hotelier, art collector, antiquarian and writer. He amassed a considerable collection of paintings, literary works, china, furniture antiquities and other ephemera and memorabilia. His most notable literary achievement was the publication of a massive volume entitled Dundee its Quaint and Historic Buildings .
A. C. Lamb was born in Dundee onFebruary 1843. He was the son of Thomas Lamb, who founded Lambs Temperance Hotel in Murraygate, Dundee in 1828, and of Jessie Crawford. Lamb was educated at the High School of Dundee before being apprenticed to the baking and confectionery trade. After completing his apprenticeship he went to Liverpool, Manchester, and to Edinburgh to gain experience in hotel management. In 1867, Lamb was given charge of a temperance hotel established at 64 Reform Street, . Soon after, the Murraygate hotel was sold off, and he took over the family business when his father died in 1869. OnJuly 1872, he married Mary Ann Worrall in Dundee and they had two sons and four daughters. They were Mary , Jessie , Helen Kidd , Thomas Crawford , Maggie Robertson and George Buxton . In 1878, Lamb was made a member of the Society of Antiquaries. He was also a member of the Fine Art Committee in Dundee, of the Graphic Arts Association of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society,
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