John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl

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John Stewart-Murray in Vanity Fair , 1905

John George Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl (born December 15, 1871 at Blair Castle , † March 16, 1942 ) was a British peer , military and politician.

origin

He was the second born and eldest surviving son of John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl (1840-1917) and his wife Louisa Moncreiffe (1844-1902). As his father's apparent marriage , he carried the courtesy title of Marquess of Tullibardine until 1917 . He belonged to the Scottish Murray clan and followed in 1917 as its chief .

Military career

After attending Eton College , he embarked on an officer career. He served in the Royal Horse Guards and was promoted to Second Lieutenant in 1892 and Lieutenant in 1893 . With his regiment he took part in the campaign in Sudan against the Mahdi uprising in 1898 and fought with flying colors at the Battle of Khartoum and the Battle of Atbara , so that on November 15, 1898 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order . A year later he was promoted to captain .

As of November 1900, he then took the Second Boer War as Brevet - Major Horse Guards part. In South Africa he set up a regiment called The Scottish Horse . At the end of the war it had become a brigade and he himself became its colonel commandant . In 1902 he was accepted as a member of the Royal Victorian Order .

During the First World War he led a brigade in the bloody fighting on the Dardanelles and in 1918 was appointed Brigadier-General .

In 1918 he was made Knight Companion of the Thistle Order and in 1923 Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, he was also accepted as a Companion in the Order of the Bath .

Political career

During the peacetime he ran for a seat in Parliament in the British House of Commons and was elected for the Unionists in West Perthshire constituency in January 1910 . In January 1917 he lost his mandate because he inherited his title of nobility as 8th Duke of Atholl along with subordinate titles and the associated seat in the House of Lords due to the death of his father and left the House of Commons for it.

From 1918 to 1920 he was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland . From 1920 to 1931 he held the office of aide-de-camp for King George V and from 1921 to 1922 the court office of Lord Chamberlain of the Household and in 1921 he was admitted to the British Privy Council .

Marriage and offspring

He married on July 20, 1899 in St Margaret's Church in London Katherine Marjorie Ramsay (1874-1960), daughter of Sir James Ramsay, 10th Baronet (1832-1925). His wife was ennobled as Dame Commander des Order of the British Empire in 1918 , was Parliamentary Secretary of State for the Department of Education from 1924 to 1929, and was finally a Labor Party MP in the House of Commons for the constituency of Kinross and West Perthshire from 1923 to 1938 .

Since the marriage remained childless, when he died on March 16, 1942, his brother Lord James Stewart-Murray inherited all of his titles.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Volume Fü III, CAStarke-Verlag, Limburg 1955, p. 229.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette : No. 27358, p. 6229 , September 24, 1901.
  3. ^ The London Gazette: 27359, 6304 , September 27, 1901.
  4. ↑ The House of Commons, Constituencies, beginning with, P ' ( Memento from December 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  5. ↑ Peerage: Atholl (Athole) at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  6. ↑ Katharine Marjory Ramsay on thepeerage.com
predecessor Office successor
John Stewart-Murray Duke of Atholl
1917-1942 		James Stewart-Murray
personal data
SURNAME Stewart-Murray, John, 8th Duke of Atholl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stewart-Murray, John George, 8th Duke of Atholl; Stewart-Murray, John, Marquess of Tullibardine; Atholl, John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British military and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Blair Castle
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1942