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GOVAN

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 292 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GOVAN , a municipal and police
burgh
  of
Lanarkshire
 , Scotland. It lies on the south bank of the
Clyde
  in actual contact with Glasgow, and in a parish of the same name which includes a large part of the city on both sides of the river. Pop. (1891) 61,589; (19o1) 76,532. Govan remained little more than a
village
  till 186o, when the growth of shipbuilding and allied trades gave its development an enormous impetus. Among its public buildings are the municipal chambers, combination fever
hospital
 
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, Samaritan
hospital
 
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and reception houses for the poor. Elder Park (40 acres) presented to the
burgh
  in 1885 contains a statue of John Elder (1824-1869), the
pioneer
  shipbuilder, the husband of the donor. A statue of Sir William Pearce (1833-1888), another well-known Govan shipbuilder, once M.P. for the burgh; stands at Govan Cross. The Govan lunacy board opened in 1896 an asylum near Paisley. Govan is supplied with Glasgow gas and water, and its tramways are leased by the Glasgow
corporation
 ; but it has an electric light installation of its own, and performs all other municipal functions quite independently of the city, annexation to which it has always strenuously resisted. Prince's Dock lies within its bounds and the ship-building yards have turned out many famous ironclads and liners. Besides shipbuilding its other industries are match-making, silk-weaving,
hair
 -working, copper-working, tube-making, weaving, and the manufacture of locomotives and electrical apparatus. The town forms the greater part of the Govan division of
Lanarkshire
 , which returns one member to parliament.


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