John Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel

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John Scott Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel , KT , CH , CMG , PC (born October 26, 1905 , † August 17, 1992 ) was a British politician of the National Liberal Party and most recently the Conservative Party , which, among other things, ran from 1940 to 1964 Member of Parliament ( House of Commons ) , from 1951 to 1952 Minister of transport (Minister of transport) and Minister for Civil Aviation (Minister of Civil Aviation) , and from 1957 to 1962 Minister of Scotland (Secretary of State for Scotland) was. In 1964 he became a Viscount Muirshiel raised to the hereditary nobility and was thus until his death in the upper house ( House of Lords ) to.

Life

Family background and member of the House of Commons

Maclay was the youngest of seven children of entrepreneur and politician Joseph Paton Maclay , who was Minister of Shipping between 1916 and 1921 and was promoted to 1st Baron Maclay, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, in 1922, and his wife Martha Strang. His two eldest brothers Ebenezer Maclay and William Strang Maclay fell during the First World War . His eldest sister, Janet Maclay, was the wife of the politician John Hampden Inskip, who held the office of Lord Mayor of Bristol from 1931 to 1932 , while his second oldest sister, Lilias Maclay, was a graduate of Medicine and Surgery and was married to Reverend John Edmund Hamilton. His older brother Joseph Paton Maclay, 2nd Baron Maclay represented the Liberal Party between 1931 and 1945 as a member of the House of Commons and inherited the title of 2nd Baron Maclay after his father's death in 1951. His older brother Walter Symington Maclay was for a time the personal physician of Queen Elizabeth II and, for his services, became Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).

John Scott Maclay himself visited the renowned Founded in 1382 Winchester College and then graduated from the Trinity College of the University of Cambridge . In a by-election (by-election) , he was on 5 July 1940 as the candidate of the National Liberal Party in the constituency Montrose for the first time as a member of the lower house ( House of Commons ) and represented that constituency until its dissolution on 23 February 1950. 1944 served he was head of the British merchant shipping agency in the USA and in 1944 was named Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) for his services . In 1945 he acted briefly as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Production Minister Oliver Lyttelton . In 1947 he replaced Stanley Holmes as chairman of the National Liberal Party and held this position until his replacement by James Duncan in 1956. In the election of February 23, 1950 Maclay was re-elected to the House of Commons for the National Liberal Party in the constituency of Renfrewshire West , to which he belonged until July 16, 1964.

Minister and Member of the House of Lords

On October 31, 1951, Maclay was appointed Minister of Transport and Minister of Civil Aviation by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in his third cabinet and held these offices until May 7, 1952, after which Alan Lennox- Boyd succeeded him. On 24 June 1952 he became a member of the Secret Privy Council ( Privy Council ) . He later served as Minister of State for Colonial Affairs between 1956 and 1957 . On January 13, 1957, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan appointed him Minister for Scotland (Secretary of State for Scotland) in his cabinet , which he belonged to until his replacement by Michael Noble on July 13, 1962. On July 20, 1962, he was also awarded the Order of the Companions of Honor (CH).

After retiring from the House Maclay was on 16 July 1964, he was a hereditary Viscount Muirshiel , of Kilmacolm in the County of Renfrew in the hereditary nobility of the Peerage of the United Kingdom raised and was thus until his death in the upper house ( House of Lords ) . He served between 1967 and 1980. He was Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire and thus the Queen's representative there. On April 26, 1973 he was Knight of the Order of the Thistle (Knight of the Order of the Thistle) .

Since his marriage to Betty L'Estrange Astley on October 16, 1930 remained childless, the title of Viscount Muirshel expired on his death on August 17, 1992.

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predecessor Office successor
New title created Viscount Muirshiel
1964-1992 		Title expired
personal data
SURNAME Maclay, John, 1st Viscount Muirshiel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maclay, John Scott, 1st Viscount Muirshiel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, MP and peer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1905
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1992