Career
Glen-Coats was a Director of the thread-making firm of J. & P. Coats. He was created a Baronet, of Ferguslie Park in the Parish of Abbey in the County of Renfrew, in 1894. He stood for Renfrewshire West in 1900 but narrowly lost.
He stood down in January 1910.
He was also Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire between 1908 and 1922. He held the Volunteer Decoration.
Thomas Glen-Coats married Elise Agnes, daughter of Alexander Walker, Esquire, merchant, of Montreal, in 1876. She was identified with Liberal associations and interests in the West of Scotland.
Their eldest son was Sir Thomas Glen-Coats, 2nd Baronet, an Olympic sailor.
The family donated $10,000 to the London Cancer Research Fund.
