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James Edgar (1843 – 1909) was a businessman who has been credited with being the one who first came up with the idea of dressing up as Santa Claus for Christmas. [1] He started the tradition in 1890 in his Brockton, Massachusetts , department store.
James David Edgar (1841–1899), Canadian politician James Edgar (entrepreneur) (1843–1909), Scottish-American founder of Edgar Department Stores and the first department store Santa Claus James Douglas Edgar (1884–1921), English professional golfer
Edgar was well-connected; he was the godson of James Maule, 4th Earl of Panmure. [2] In the Jacobite rising of 1715, Edgar was among the first to rally to the raising of the Jacobite standard at Braemar by the Earl of Mar. During the rising he served as clerk to John Hay of Cromlix. [2]
English: A portrait of James Edgar (1688–1762) by an unknown artist. Now in the collection of National Galleries Scotland. Now in the collection of National Galleries Scotland. Photo credit: Antonia Reeve, National Galleries Scotland
James III & VIII: Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke: 1715 1716 John Erskine, Earl of Mar: 1716 1724 John Hay, Duke of Inverness [3] 1724 1727 James Murray, Earl of Dunbar: 1727 1747 Daniel O'Brien, Earl of Lismore: 1747 1759 John Graeme, Earl of Alford [4] 1759 1763 James Edgar: 1763 1764 Andrew Lumisden: 1764 1768 James III & VIII ...
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Edgar's Portrait Salon was located on its balcony. All locations featured distinctive bright green carpeting that was one of the stores trademarks. Edgar's operated in at least three other locations; one in Fall River, Massachusetts, one in the Dartmouth Mall in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and one in the Swansea Mall, in Swansea, Massachusetts.
An authoritative list of the Jacobite peerage does not exist. The standard source relied on is The Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Grants of Honour published in 1904 by Melville Henry Massue, who called himself 'Marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval'.