John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet

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Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet, 1924

Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet GCVO DSO PC TD JP DL ( May 27, 1876 - March 30, 1940 ) was a Scottish politician and officer.

Life

Gilmour was born in 1876 as the second child of Sir John Gilmour, 1st Baronet and his wife Henrietta . He embarked on a military career and served in both the Second Boer War and the First World War . Gilmour was awarded the Territorial Decoration for his services and the Distinguished Service Order in 1918. In the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry he held the rank of lieutenant colonel . In 1931 he was promoted to colonel . In 1936 Gilmour also served as a brigadier for the Royal Company of Archers .

On April 9, 1902, Gilmour married Mary Louise Lambert . The couple had two children, Anne Margaret (* 1909) and John Edward (* 1912). After the death of his wife in January 1919, Gilmour married Violet Agnes Lambert on April 17, 1920 . The marriage resulted in another child, Daphne Mary (* 1922). On the death of his father in 1920 he inherited the title of Baronet , of Lundin and Montrave in the County of Fife and of South Walton in the County of Renfrew. In 1922 Gilmour was inducted into the Privy Council . Over the years three universities, St Andrews , Glasgow and Edinburgh , have awarded Gilmour honorary degrees in law . Between 1926 and 1929 he was appointed rector of Edinburgh University. In addition, he served as Deputy Lieutenant of Fife . In 1935 he was accepted into the Royal Victorian Order as the Knight Grand Cross . Between 1938 and 1939 he served as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland .

Political career

Gilmour first appeared in the 1906 general election to national elections. He ran for the constituency of East Fife for the Conservative Party . However, he was defeated by the liberal and later Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith . In the general election in January 1910 , Gilmour ran in the constituency of East Renfrewshire , whose mandate the liberal Robert Laidlaw had won in the previous elections. Gilmour prevailed against Laidlaw and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . In the following elections in December 1910 , he held his mandate against the liberal challenger Ian Macpherson . Between 1913 and 1915, Gilmour served as deputy whip of the unionist faction in parliament.

For the general election in 1918 Gilmour no longer stood in the constituency of East Renfrewshire. The mandate went to the liberal Joseph Johnstone . Instead, Gilmour, a member of the Unionist Party since 1912, applied for the mandate of the newly created constituency of Glasgow Pollok . He won the mandate unopposed and held it in all subsequent elections until his death in 1940.

In 1919 he took on the role of whip in parliament. Gilmour served as one of the Junior Lords of Treasury between 1921 and 1922 and again from 1923 to 1924 . From 1924 he held the position of Minister of Scotland and filled it until 1929. From 1931 to 1932 he served as State Secretary for Agriculture and Fisheries and was then appointed Minister of the Interior until the end of the 1935 electoral term . Between 1939 and 1940 he finally acted as State Secretary for Shipping. A total of 6435 contributions by Gilmour are recorded in Parliament.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rt.Hon. Sir John Gilmour of Lundin and Montrave, 2nd Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed July 10, 2015.
  2. ↑ Sir John Gilmour of Lundin and Montrave, 1st Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed July 10, 2015.
  3. ^ Results of the general election in 1910
  4. ↑ a b c Robert Laidlaw in Hansard (English)
  5. ^ Results of the general election in 1918
  6. ^ The Glasgow Herald: Glasgow to honor Sir John Gilmour , February 26, 1929.

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predecessor Office successor
John Gilmour Baronet, of Lundin and Montrave
1920-1940 		John Gilmour
personal data
SURNAME Gilmour, John, 2nd Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician and officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1876
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1940