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77. The Honourable James Hozier, afterwards 2nd Lord Newlands 1900-04
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James Henry Cecil Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands (4 April 1851–5 September 1929) was the son of William Hozier, 1st Baron
Newlands.
He was educated at Eton College and at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1880, he married Lady Mary Louisa Wellesley Cecil, a
daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Exeter.
He served as a Third Secretary in the Diplomatic Service from 1876, as Diplomatic Secretary at the Constantinople Conference,
1876-1877, and as Private Secretary to the Marquess of Salisbury while he was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1878-
1880 and again as Prime Minister from 1885-1886.
He then entered Parliament and sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Lanarkshire South from 1886-1906. He was Grand
Master Mason of Scotland from 1899-1903 and was Brigadier of the Royal Company of Archers from 1910. He received the
Freedom of the City of Glasgow in 1917.
He died without issue and his title became extinct.
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Sir JAMES HENRY CECIL HOZIER. 2nd Baron Newlands who was born on April 4th 1851 is the only
son of the late William Wallace 1st Baron Newlands , Vice-Lieutenant and Convener of
Lanarkshire,Chairman of the first Lanarkshire County Council J.P, and D.L. for Lanarkshire and for the
County of the City of Glasgow, and J.P for Argyllshire, who died on January 30th 1906. By his wife ,
Frances Anne , who died in 1891 daughter of John O'Hara , Esq: of Raheen by his wife Arabella , Lady
O'Donel , daughter of Sir John Blake Bt; of Menlough Castle.
The Late Lord Newlands who served in the Scots Greys and several auxilary corps, was noted for his
benefactions Inter alia he built equipped and partially endowed the Lady Hozier Convalescent Home at
Lanark as a memorial to his late wife's memory and opened the Institution himself in 1893. His Lordship
was created a Baronet on June 12th 1890, and was raised to the peerage on January 19th 1898.
The present Lord Newlands was educated at Eton, and at Balliol college , Oxford, which elected him an
honorary Fellow in 1907.
In 1886 Mr Hozier ( after having being defeated there in 1885 ) was elected Member for South Lanarkshire.
In December 1890,the Lodge Room was moved to the Clydesdale Hotel, only to be again moved in August 1892, back to the Crown
Hotel. At the insistence of Bro; James Hozier , MP; Provincial Grand Master of Lanarkshire Upperward, the new Lodge Room on
this occasion would be concescrated by himself in a particular manner, and all expenses on the occasion would be met by him.
The Ceremony was carried out on the 1st December 1892.
Some 118 years after receiving its Charter from The Grand Lodge of Scotland, the freemasons in Carluke had their own premises .
Opening ceremony ( 14th September 1912 )
Owing to the fact that Lord Newlands was indisposed, the ceremony of presenting him with an inscribed Gold Key as a Souvenir
from the Lodge of the happy occasion, was carried out inside the building. In his reply to the Lodge, Lord Newlands congratulated
the Lodge on its achievements and the honour of naming the temple ' The Newlands Masonic Temple '. As a little token of affection
Lady Newlands proposed to present to the Lodge, an oil painting of himself, painted when he was Grand Master Mason of Scotland.
Mauldslie Castle The Home of Lord Newlands. This estate is on the road from Lanark to Carluke
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