Douglas Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray

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Douglas John Moray Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray (born February 13, 1928 in Johannesburg , South Africa , † September 23, 2011 ) was a British peer and entrepreneur .

Life

Douglas John Moray Stuart was the son of Archibald John Morton Stuart, 19th Earl of Moray († 1974) and Mabel Helen Maud Wilson. He inherited the title of Earl of Moray in 1974, after his father's death. Until 1974 he carried the title Lord Duane.

He was the second oldest of four siblings; he had an older sister, Hermione (1925–1969), who was married to Friedrich Karl von Preußen (1919–2006) , and two younger brothers, Charles and James. In 1922, his father had bought a remote cattle farm, Saas Poste, in the east of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana , at the time the Bechuanaland Protectorate , which he managed. His mother, Mabel Wilson, was the daughter of Benjamin "Matabele" Wilson, a researcher and early immigrant who had worked for Cecil Rhodes and was a friend of Lobengula , the last king of the Matabele kingdom .

Douglas John Moray Stuart grew up on the banks of the Limpopo River ; at the age of seven he was sent to a prep school in Johannesburg. He attended Hilton College in Hilton , Natal Province . After graduating there, he returned to Scotland , the homeland of his ancestors, in 1945 . From 1947 he studied history at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge ; He also completed a degree in property management at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester . Released from military service due to his South African birth, he then joined the family business on the advice of his father. He managed the company together with his father until his death in 1974.

Douglas John Moray Stuart was director ( director ) and CEO ( Chairman ), founded in 1924 Moray Estates Development Company Limited, a major property management company for the maintenance and promotion of the family property. He ran the company, which had estates in Scotland, principally Moray , Perthshire and Inverness-shire , for over 60 years. Moray initially mainly operated the classic areas of renting and leasing apartments and farms, agriculture and forestry . He later initiated extensive diversification , concentrating his corporate interests on urban development , urban planning and urban planning . In the 1960s, the establishment of the new town of Dalgety Bay on the Donibristle Estate in Fife was one of the family company's outstanding projects. Moray also built a large-scale golf course, the Castle Stuart Golf Links ; the Scottish Open was held there in 2011 .

Just a few years before his death, he had handed over management of the company to his son, John Douglas Stuart, 21st Earl of Moray.

Membership in the House of Lords

With the death of his father in 1974 he also inherited his father's seat in the House of Lords . He was a member of the House of Lords from March 1974 to November 1999. He lost his seat under the House of Lords Act 1999 .

Private

Since 1952, Douglas Stuart lived on the family estate, Doune Castle . In 1984 he transferred Doune Castle, which had been in the family since 1570, to the state. It is now managed by Historic Scotland , the Scottish Government's agency responsible for the preservation of historic buildings.

On January 27, 1964, he married Lady Malvina Dorothea Murray (* 1936), the daughter of Mungo David Malcolm Murray, 6th Earl of Mansfield and Dorothea Helena Carnegie. The marriage had two children: a son John Douglas (* 1966), now the 21st Earl of Moray, and a daughter, Louisa.

Douglas Stuart died after a brief illness at the age of 83.

Trivia

He was passionate about car racing . He had a particular weakness for racing cars from before the Second World War . In 1968 he initiated the Doune Hill Climb car race. In 1970 he founded the Doune Motor Museum, which closed in 1998. However, the Doune Hill Climb race will continue to run under the direction of the Lothian Car Club.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b MORAY death report in: The Daily Telegraph ; last accessed on June 24, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d Douglas John Moray Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray on thepeerage.com , accessed August 19, 2015.
  3. ↑ Passing of The Earl of Moray ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Death report dated October 20, 2011 (Official website of Moray Estates Development Company Limited); last accessed on June 24, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.morayestates.com
  4. ^ Mr Douglas Stuart ( Memento from September 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Entry by Hansard
  5. ↑ Scotland's Stalwart Castles EuropeUpClose.com of October 14, 2010
  6. ^ Douglas John Moray Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
predecessor Office successor
Archibald Stuart Earl of Moray
1974-2011 		John Stuart
personal data
SURNAME Stuart, Douglas, 20th Earl of Moray
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stuart, Douglas John, 20th Earl of Moray
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British peer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 2011