Descendants of John MCCLYMONT

Fourth Generation

9. Florence Mary "Flossy" MCCLYMONT [scrapbook] (William , John , John ) was born on 6 Nov 1874 in Buenos Aires. She died on 3 Jul 1951. The McClymonts owned the estancia La Caledonia in the province of Buenos Aires.

Flossy married Thomas FRAME THOMSON "Trams" [scrapbook], son of Dr William Cooper THOMSON and Margaret Morrison FRAME, in 1900 in St Mary Abbott's, Kensington. Trams was born on 19 May 1867 in Dowanside, Glasgow. He died on 30 Sep 1913 in Caen Wood Towers, Highgate, London. Director of Cordoba Power and Light and also the Entre Rios railway, both in Argentina, he electified the tramway system in Buenos Aires; work that gave him his nickname. He was also a director of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, on which he had his own private carriage. A full description of his talents and achievements may be found at https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Thomas_Frame_Thomson.

They had the following children.

	15	F	i	Emily Margaret "Peggie" FRAME-THOMSON was born in 1901.
				Peggie married B Frazer BEATSON.
+	16	F	ii	Lucinda Alice McClymont "Luda" FRAME-THOMSON was born in 1905.
+	17	F	iii	Mona Florita FRAME-THOMSON was born on 26 Feb 1909. She died on 29 Feb 1984.
	18	M	iv	Thomas "Tom" FRAME-THOMSON [scrapbook] was born in 1913 in Caen Wood Towers, Highgate, London. He died on 30 Jan 1991 in Twin Pines Ranch, Santa Barbara. Tom went to Eton and achieved a Mechanical Engineering degree at Cambridge, where he was rowing Blue when they won in 1933. During the second World War, he was a test pilot at Biggin Hill. He later worked for Shell in the USA and was chief engineer for Craig Breedlove's "Spirit of America" three-wheeler jet car, which broke the land speed record on 5th August 1963, at 657.11 kilometres per hour. This took place on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. He regularly flew on Concorde across the Atlantic on his way to and from California, where he lived on Enid's avocado farm near Santa Barbara.
				Tom married Enid BLISS.

14. Lucinda MCCLYMONT (William , John , John ).

Lucinda married Cyril TUBBS.

They had the following children.

	19	M	i	Ian TUBBS.
	20	F	ii	Doreen TUBBS.
	21	F	iii	Thelma TUBBS.

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