Background
LANG, Robert Hamilton was born in 1836 in Scotland. Son of late Reverend Gavin Langi Minister of Glassford, Lanarkshire, and Anna Roberton Marshall of Nielsland.
LANG, Robert Hamilton was born in 1836 in Scotland. Son of late Reverend Gavin Langi Minister of Glassford, Lanarkshire, and Anna Roberton Marshall of Nielsland.
Hamilton Academy; Glasgow University. Companion of Saint Michael and Saint George 1886. Manager of the Imperial Ottoman Bank’s Agency in Cyprus, 1863-1872.
His (or Her) Majesty’s Consul for Cyprus, 1871-1872.
Manager of the Imperial Ottoman Bank’s Agency in Egypt, 1872-1875.
Director of the Imperial Ottoman Bank at Constantinople, 1875. Director-General of the Regie des Tabacs en Roumanie, 1876-1879. Director-General of the Administration of Six Contributions Indirectes, Constantinople, 1880-1882.
Director-General of the Ottoman Public Debt, 1882-1883.
Director General of the R£gie des Tabacs Ottomane, 1883-1885. British Member of the Council of Direction of the Egyptian Daira Sanieh Administration, 1887-1897.
Director-General of the Imperial Ottoman Bank at Constantinople, 1897-1902. Since on the London Committee of the said bank.
Cartulary-register 1897.
Spouse 1876, Margaret,daughter of late Walter MacLellan, Blairvaddick, Justice of the Peace