James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas

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James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas

James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas , PC , QC (born July 31, 1942 ) is a Scottish politician and a member of the Conservative Party .

In addition to his political activities, he has also written several non-fiction books. In 2012/13 Douglas-Hamilton was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland .

He attended Eton College , then studied law at the University of Edinburgh and graduated with a bachelor's degree . He obtained a master's degree from Oxford University in 1964 and then worked as a lawyer until 1968. Douglas-Hamilton is married and has four sons. He is the second son of Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton .

British House of Commons

In 1972 Douglas-Hamilton made his first political appearance when he was elected to Edinburgh City Council. For the first time he ran in the general election in October 1974 to national elections and won the direct mandate of his constituency of Edinburgh West . He moved into the British House of Commons and defended his mandate in the following elections until the Liberal Democrat David Gorrie was able to book a higher share of the vote in the 1997 general election, whereby Douglas-Hamilton resigned from parliament. In 1977 he was deputy whip in the Conservative Group in the House of Commons and from 1979 to 1981 Lord Commissioner of the Treasury . In the following years he held various higher party or parliamentary positions.

Scottish Parliament

In the first Scottish parliamentary elections in 1999 Douglas-Hamilton ran in the constituency of Edinburgh West , but only achieved the second highest number of votes behind the Liberal Democrat Margaret Smith . Since Douglas-Hamilton was also on the regional electoral list of the Conservatives for the electoral region Lothians , he moved as one of seven regional candidates in the newly created Scottish Parliament as a result of the election results . In the following parliamentary elections , he again applied for the direct mandate of Edinburgh West, but could not win it again. However, he defended his mandate for the electoral region. At the end of the legislative period, he left parliament.

British House of Lords

Douglas-Hamilton succeeded his uncle George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk in November 1994 as 11th  Earl of Selkirk and 11th Lord Daer and Shortcleugh . To the benefit of a seat in the Upper House to resign from the House of Commons, he resigned four days later on the title. In 1996 he was promoted to both Privy Counsel and Queen's Counsel . After his mandate ended in 1997, he was raised to the status of a life peer as Baron Selkirk of Douglas , of Cramond in the City of Edinburgh, and was ultimately a member of the House of Lords for life.

Works

  • Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Motive for a Mission: Story Behind Hess's Flight to Britain , Macmillan, 1971. ISBN 978-0-33312-260-0 ,
    • German translation: Secret flight to England: the "Messenger of Peace" Rudolf Hess and his backers , with a foreword by Alan Bullock and an afterword for the German edition by Hans-Adolf Jacobsen. Droste, Düsseldorf 1973, ISBN 3-770-00292-X .
  • Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The Air Battle For Malta: The Diaries of a Fighter Pilot , Mainstream Publishing, 1981, ISBN 978-0-90639-120-4
  • Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: Roof of the World: Man's First Flight Over Everest , Mainstream Publishing, 1983, ISBN 978-0-90639-138-9
  • Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: The Truth About Rudolf Hess , Mainstream Publishing, 1993. ISBN 978-1-85158-538-0
  • Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: After You, Prime Minister [Memoirs], London, Stacey Intern. 2009, ISBN 978-1-906768-06-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Entry on number10.gov.uk
  2. ^ A b c d C. Mosley: Burke's Peerage and Baronetage , Volume 2, 106th Edition, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999, p. 2577. ISBN 978-1-57958-083-4
  3. James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
  4. Results of the 1979 parliamentary elections ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2016 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
  5. Results of the 1997 parliamentary elections ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
  6. a b Information from the House of Lords
  7. Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  8. Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  9. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
  10. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website