Education
Born in Baillieston in 1885 of Irish descent and raised Roman Catholic, Dollan attended Street Bridget"s elementary school until he was ten years old.
Born in Baillieston in 1885 of Irish descent and raised Roman Catholic, Dollan attended Street Bridget"s elementary school until he was ten years old.
During the First World War they campaigned against the Munitions of War Acting of 1915 which suspended trade unionists" rights for the duration of hostilities. He later joined his father working as a miner at Clydeside Colliery in 1900. She was a staunch pacifist and suffragette during World War I.
Patrick and Agnes Dollan were vocal in raising awareness of the plight of thousands of Glasgow tenants who were having their rents raised at a time when military conscription had reduced their earning potential.
Government concern at the volatile situation in the city led to the Rent Restrictions Acting of November 1915, freezing rents at pre-war levels.
In the 1920s he was the author of a booklet, The Clyde Rent War!, a narrative of the Glasgow rent strikes of 1915-1916, which also contained proposals for housing policy reform. Dollan was the chairman of the Scottish section of the Independent Labour Party from 1920 until 1932, when he was expelled and formed his own Scottish Socialist Party, which immediately affiliated to the Labour Party.
He served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1938-1941. The Dollan Baths in East Kilbride, Scotland"s first Olympic-sized swimming pool, is named in his honour.
At the beginning of World World War II, Dollan encouraged his fellow Glaswegians to support the war effort against fascism, for which efforts he was knighted in 1941.