(May 9, 1815 – November 18, 1901) was a political leader in Scotland who was the father of Scottish industrialist George Lauder and surrogate father to his nephew Andrew Carnegie.
He was the also the progenitor of the Lauder Greenway Family.
Lauder Sr.
was consistently credited by Carnegie with guiding him, and is described as such in Carnegie's 1920 autobiography: "...a man whose influence on me cannot be underestimated, my Uncle Lauder."