William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany

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William John St. Clair Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany PC DL MC (March 5, 1905 , † August 6, 1985 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who , with interruptions, was a member of the House of Commons for 29 years and intermittently Deputy Speaker ( Deputy Speaker ) was and 1966 as Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 member of the House of Lords .

Life

Degree, officer and member of the House of Commons

Anstruther-Gray was a son of William Anstruther-Gray , a lieutenant colonel and the House of Representatives, as well as Clayre Jessie Tennant, which at times as a magistrate ( justice of the peace had) and for their contributions to the Commander of the Order of the British Empire was appointed. After completing school at Eton College , he studied at Christ Church at the University of Oxford , from which he graduated with a Master of Arts (MA). After he joined in 1926 in the Guard grenadier regiment of the Coldstream Guards , and held the rank of when he left in 1930 lieutenants , where he from 1927 to 1928 for the Shanghai Defense Force was assigned.

In the general election of October 27, 1931 , Anstruther-Gray was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Party for the first time as a member of the House of Commons, where he represented the constituency of Lanarkshire North for almost fourteen years until he was defeated in the general election on July 5, 1945 .

Junior Minister and World War II

During this time he was in 1935 Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Overseas Trade ( Secretary of Overseas Trade ) Euan Wallace and shortly after the first Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Scotland minister ( Secretary of State for Scotland ) Godfrey Collins before he in the Treasury (1936 HM Treasury changed) and There Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Treasury Secretary to the Treasury ( Financial Secretary to the Treasury ) John Colville was. After Colville became Minister of Scotland on May 6, 1938, he remained its Parliamentary Private Secretary in this Ministry until 1939.

At the beginning of the Second World War he rejoined the Coldstream Guards as a reserve officer and took part in missions in North Africa , France and Germany in the following years . For his military merits and bravery, Anstruther-Gray, who was promoted to major in 1942 , was awarded the Military Cross in 1943.

After the end of the war, he became Deputy Post Minister ( Assistant Postmaster General ) in May 1945 and thus deputy to Post Minister Harry Crookshank . However, he had to leave the government two months later when he lost his seat in the lower house in the general election of July 5, 1945 to Margaret "Peggy" Herbison , his opponent of the Labor Party and later Minister for Pension and National Insurance and Minister for social security in the government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson .

Re-election to the House of Commons, House of Lords and Lord Lieutenant

In the general election of October 25, 1951 , Anstruther-Gray was re-elected to the lower house for the conservative Tories and represented the constituency of Berwickshire and East Lothian until the general election on March 31, 1966 .

He became Deputy Lieutenant of Fife in 1953 . In 1956 he was given the hereditary title of Baronet , of Kilmany in the County of Fifeshire. After the Conservative Party's renewed victory in the general election of October 8, 1959 , he became Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons on October 27, 1959 . He held the office of deputy to House of Commons Speaker Harry Hylton-Foster until January 24, 1964 and was also appointed Privy Councilor in 1962 .

In addition, he took over on January 29, 1962 as the successor to Gordon Touche the office of chairman of the influential Committee for Ways and Means ( Chairman of Ways and Means ) and kept this function until the election victory of the Labor Party in the general election on October 15, 1964 as well the subsequent replacement by Horace King . During his membership in the House of Commons, he was the last successor to John Morrison between 1964 and his replacement by Arthur Vere Harvey in 1966, chairman of the so-called 1922 Committee , the parliamentary association of backbenchers of the Conservative Party.

Nearly two months after his departure from the House of Commons was Anstruther-Gray by a Letters Patent from June 2, 1966, according to the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Kilmany , of Kilmany in the County of Fifeshire, in the peerage and was a member of the House of Lords for more than nineteen years until his death. During this time he succeeded John McWilliam as Lord Lieutenant of Fife in 1975 and held this position as representative of the British Queen until he was succeeded by John Gilmour in 1980.

His marriage to Monica Helen Lambton, a granddaughter of Frederick William Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham , on October 4, 1934 , had two daughters, including Diana Mary Anstruther-Gray, who was also Privy Councilor and Deputy Lieutenant of Fife in 1992 and was married to James Charles Macnab of Macnab , 23rd chief of Clan Macnab . Since he had no sons, his baronet title expired on his death on August 6, 1985.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 43981, HMSO, London, May 19, 1966, p. 5785 ( PDF , accessed October 20, 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Anstruther-Gray, William, Baron Kilmany
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anstruther-Gray, William John St. Clair, Baron Kilmany (full name); Sir William Anstruther-Gray, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1905
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1985