James Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn

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James Gray (Gray) Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn , CH , MVO , MC * , PC (born February 9, 1897 in Edinburgh , Scotland , † February 20, 1971 ) was a British - Scottish politician of the Scottish Unionist Party Conservative Party , among others 1923-1959 Member of Parliament ( House of Commons ) , and from 1951 to 1957 Minister of Scotland was. On 20 November 1959 he was as Viscount Stuart of Findhorn ennobled and thus a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) .

Life

Family origin and officer in the First World War

Stuart was the third of four children of Morton Gray Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray and his wife Edith Douglas Palmer, daughter of Rear Admiral George Palmer . His eldest brother Francis Douglas Stuart inherited his father's title of 18th Earl of Moray and the subordinate titles when his father died on April 19, 1930, and was Lord Lieutenant of Morayshire from 1935 until his death in 1943 . His second oldest brother was Archibald John Morton Stuart , who served as a frigate captain in the Royal Navy and inherited the title of 19th Earl of Moray on the death of his older brother Francis Douglas Stuart, who died without male heirs on July 9, 1943. The youngest child and only daughter was Lady Hermione Moray Stuart, who on April 23, 1919 married the future Admiral Henry Tritton Buller .

James Gray Stuart himself completed his school education at the renowned Eton College and began his military service with the Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) after the beginning of the First World War . He served as a captain in the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Scots and was most recently brigade major of the 15th Infantry Brigade. For his military services he was awarded the Military Cross (MC) on January 1, 1917 , for which he received a clasp (bar) on July 18, 1917 . After the war he was between 1 June 1920 and 1921 equerry (Equerry-in-Waiting) of Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George , Duke of York . On December 30, 1921 he became a member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO).

Member of the House of Commons and Junior Minister

In the general election on December 6, 1923 Stuart was a candidate of the Scottish Unionist Party Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) selected and represented in this up to its mandate resignation on 18 September 1959 the constituency of Moray and Nairn .

On June 18, 1935 Stuart took his first government post, as a Lord to the Treasury (Junior Lord of the Treasury ) during the third National government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin . He also took on this position in the fourth national government , which Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had formed on May 28, 1937. He also held the post of Junior Lord of the Treasury in the War Government formed by Prime Minister Chamberlain between September 3, 1939 and May 10, 1940, and was last also a member of the Privy Council ( Priy Council ) in 1939 . In the wartime government formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill on May 10, 1940 , he was initially Junior Lord of the Treasury, before he became Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury on January 14, 1941 and this function until at the end of the tenure of Churchill's interim government on July 26, 1945.

At the same time acted Stuart 1941-1948 Parliamentary General Manager of the Group of the Conservative Party in the House (Chief Conservative Whip) .

Scotland Minister and Member of the House of Lords

James Gray Stuart (back row, 4th from left) as Scotland Minister in Churchill's third cabinet (1955)

As the successor to John Craik-Henderson Stuart in 1950 Chairman of the Scottish Unionist Party (Scottish Unionist Party) and remained in this position until his replacement by Michael Noble 1,962th

After the election victory of the conservative Tories in the general election of October 25, 1951 Stuart was on 31 October 1951 the third cabinet Churchill the Minister of Scotland (Secretary of State for Scotland) . He also held this ministerial office in the government formed on April 6, 1955 by Prime Minister Anthony Eden until the end of Eden's term of office on January 9, 1957. On January 14, 1957, he was awarded the Order of the Companions of Honor (CH).

By a letters patent dated November 20, 1959, Stuart was raised to the hereditary nobility of the Peerage of the United Kingdom as Viscount Stuart of Findhorn , of Findhorn in the County of Moray . Thus he became a member of the upper house ( House of Lords ) , where he remained until his death on February 20, 1971st

Marriage and offspring

Stuart married on August 4, 1923 Lady Rachel Cavendish, the fourth daughter of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Evelyn . This marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter.

The eldest son David Randolph Moray Stuart inherited the Viscount title when his father died on February 20, 1971. The second eldest son, John Douglas Stuart, was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy and was married to Lady Caroline Child-Villiers, a daughter of George Child Villiers, 8th Earl of Jersey, among others . The youngest child, the only daughter Jean Davina Stuart, was married to John Reedham Erskine Berney, who fell as a lieutenant in the Royal Norfolk Regiment on July 24, 1952 in the Korean War , and to Percy William Jesson, a second lieutenant Royal Artillery .

Through his marriage to Lady Rachel Cavendish, Stuart became brother-in-law of future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan , who was married to Rachel Cavendish's older sister, Lady Dorothy Evelyn Cavendish.

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Individual evidence

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  3. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 29886, HMSO, London, December 29, 1916, p. 42 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
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  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 31924, HMSO, London, June 1, 1920, p. 6040 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  6. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 32563, HMSO, London, December 30, 1921, p. 10717 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  7. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34176, HMSO, London, July 2, 1935, p. 4240 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  8. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 34233, HMSO, London, December 20, 1935, p. 8188 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  9. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34407, HMSO, London, June 11, 1937, p. 3749 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  10. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34447, HMSO, London, October 26, 1937, p. 6612 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  11. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34514, HMSO, London, May 27, 1938, p. 3420 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  12. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34617, HMSO, London, April 18, 1939, p. 2586 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  13. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34740, HMSO, London, November 24, 1939, p. 7875 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  14. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 34633, HMSO, London, June 6, 1939, p. 3852 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  15. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34794, HMSO, London, February 20, 1940, p. 999 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  16. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34862, HMSO, London, May 31, 1940, p. 3274 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  17. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 40979, HMSO, London, January 18, 1957, p. 419 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  18. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 41818, HMSO, London, September 15, 1959, p. 5891 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
  19. ↑ London Gazette . No. 41874, HMSO, London, November 20, 1959, p. 7359 ( PDF , accessed October 19, 2016, English).
predecessor Office successor
New title created Viscount Stuart of Findhorn
1959-1971 		David Randolph Moray Stuart
personal data
SURNAME Stuart, James, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stuart, James Gray, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn (full name); Stuart, James Gray, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons and the House of Lords
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 1971