Sierra Madre Development Co. signed by Lady Mary Inverclyde - 1906 dated Autographed Stock Certificate

Stock issued to and signed on verso by Lady Mary Inverclyde. The wife of the recently deceased Cunard chairman, Lord Inverclyde, Mary, Lady Inverclyde, christened the ill-fated RMS Lusitania in June 1906.

Charlotte Mary Emily Nugent-Dunbar (1865-1951), of Machermore Castle, Newton Stewart, was the wife of James Cleland Burns, 3rd Baron Inverclyde. After her marriage in 1891 she was styled Baroness Inverclyde of Castle Wemyss. She was heavily involved in fund-raising efforts for the Scottish Branch of the British Red Cross throughout the First World War and with agricultural and horticultural schemes. She also served on the Women's County Committee one of whose aims was to construct a horticultural relief fund to increase the output of medicinal herbs - large number of casualties during the First World War had increased demand for medicines. Garlic and sphagnum moss particularly were used in large quantities. As Germany had been one of the major exporters of medicinal herbs, British growers would have to plug this gap.

After the war, Lady Inverclyde campaigned on behalf of the Glasgow Cabmen's Mission to raise funds to pay for two missionaries to work among cab and taxi drivers in Glasgow. Glasgow Museums has a portrait of Lady Inverclyde in evening dress, painted by Sir Frank Dicksee in 1910 and there is a stained-glass window in her memory in Monigaff Parish Church, Newton Stewart.

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