John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale

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John Granville Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale (born December 16, 1906 , † May 25, 1996 ) was a British landowner and politician . As a member of the Conservative Party , he was a member of the House of Commons from 1942 to 1965 and achieved prominence through his many years of work as chairman of the 1922 committee .

Life

Morrison was born into a traditional family of politicians. His father, Hugh Morrison (1868-1931) had been a conservative politician; his mother, Lady Mary Leveson-Gower, was the daughter of Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville , who had been a longtime cabinet member of several Liberal governments. Morrison was at Eton College and at Magdalene College of Cambridge trained. In October 1928 he married Margaret Smith, daughter of Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden . They subsequently had four children together: James Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale (1930–2003), Sir Charles Andrew Morrison (1932–2005), Dame Mary Anne Morrison, GCVO (born 1937), and Sir Peter Morrison (1944–2005) 1995).

In 1938 Morrison was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire . During World War II he first served as a member of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and moved in 1942 for the constituency of Salisbury as the successor to the late James Archibald St. George Fitzwarenne Despencer Robertson in the House of Commons and held this seat until 1965. Morrison served as chairman from 1955 to 1964 of the 1922 Committee, the authoritative gathering of backbenchers of the Tories . In this function he was twice involved in the succession of outgoing Prime Ministers . After the resignation of Anthony Eden in 1957, he gave the Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan preference over his competitor Rab Butler ; In 1963, after Macmillan's resignation, he spoke out again against Rab Butler when, in a complicated process, Alec Douglas-Home was elected as the new Prime Minister. 1965 Morrison was in recognition of his political and public services as Baron Margadale, of Islay in the County of Argyll in the Peerage levied. From 1969 to 1981 he also served as Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire . His wife, Lady Margadale, died in 1980. After his death in 1996, his eldest, John James, inherited his title. His two younger sons, however, also became politicians in the Conservative Party.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34494, HMSO, London, 18 March 1938, p. 1838 ( PDF , accessed January 3, 2016, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 43502, HMSO, London, November 27, 1964, p. 10227 ( PDF , accessed January 3, 2016, English).
  3. ^ DR Thorpe: Alec Douglas-Home. Sinclair-Stevenson, London 1996, p. 273.

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predecessor Office successor
New title created Baron Margadale
1965-1996 		James Ian Morrison
personal data
SURNAME Morrison, John, 1st Baron Margadale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morrison, John Granville
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, member of the House of Commons and the House of Lords
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1906
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1996