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http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070572b.htm Castle Craig, Skirling http://www.castlecraig.co.uk/aboutus/localhistory.htm CARMICHAEL, Sir THOMAS DAVID GIBSON, 1st Baron Carmichael of Skirling (1859-1926), governor, was born on 18 March 1859 at Edinburgh, eldest son of Rev. Sir William Henry Gibson Carmichael (d.1891), tenth baronet, and his wife Eleanora Anne, née Anderson. He was baptized in the Church of England, but had strict Presbyterian training. At school in Hampshire, England, his devotion to entomology and scientific discovery received every encouragement. He entered St John's College, Cambridge, in 1877 (B.A., 1881; M.A., 1884); his second-class in history reflected parental direction, not natural bent. A Liberal, he became in 1886 private secretary to two successive secretaries for Scotland in Gladstone's third administration. His reserved manner concealed what his friend Sir Edward Grey described as 'the acutest brain in Europe'. Intelligent, curious, selfdeprecatory, compassionate, with a gift for friendship, he was not eloquent and no politician, though he succeeded Gladstone as member of parliament for Midlothian (1895-1900). In 1908 Sir Thomas Carmichael was appointed governor of Victoria: to this post, which he took up on 27 July, he brought both his farming skills (he was a breeder of polled Angus cattle) and his artistic taste as a collector and connoisseur. He was happiest visiting country areas, where he demonstrated his dry wit: forced to speak on one occasion, he referred to a Scottish tombstone of an infant inscribed 'I expected to be called, but not so soon'. He cut down on overlapping ceremonial between himself and the Melbournebased governor-general but he enjoyed purposeful ceremonial, as in the rituals of the Church and Freemasonry. In 1886 Carmichael had married Mary Nugent, niece of the second Baron Nugent; they had no children. In Victoria Lady Carmichael took an interest in kindergartens, arts and crafts training, the Bush Nursing Association and the Victoria League. Both she and her husband promoted art education. He exhibited from his excellent collection, which included water-colours by Turner and Constable. Carmichael made two important constitutional decisions. He granted a dissolution of parliament to the premier Sir Thomas Bent, who had been defeated on 3 December 1908 in a no confidence vote. Bent, confident of popular support, lied to Carmichael about cabinet unanimity for dissolution and about financial resources for payments till the next parliament met. Carmichael, conscious of his duty to take advice from the premier, was misled. He did not ask the opportunist John Murray to form a government and did not exhaust other alternatives, a point that was clearly made by The Times (8 December 1908). Carmichael was supported, however, by the colonial secretary Lord Crewe. Bent failed to win enough support at the election and Murray became premier. Carmichael's second important constitutional decision related to the 1909 royal commission on Bent's alleged misuse of ministerial influence to make a personal profit. On 5 July the governor refused a request to allow ministers to disclose to the commission cabinet discussions about land issues, emphasizing the necessity for preserving cabinet secrecy. Carmichael left Melbourne on 29 May 1911 to become governor of Madras. In April 1912, as first Baron Carmichael of Skirling, he was appointed governor of Bengal. He left India in 1917. Survived by his wife, he died in London on 16 January 1926. Select Bibliography M. H. E. Carmichael, Lord Carmichael of Skirling (Lond, 1929); Australasian (Melbourne), 16 May 1908; Argus (Melbourne), 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 15, 21, 26, 30 Dec 1908, 8 Jan, 24 Feb 1909; Age (Melbourne), 7, 8 Dec 1908, 24 Feb 1909; 'Obituary', Times (London); 20 Jan 1926, p 17; CO 418/64, 418, 423-32, 439, 462-66, 74/35-45, 51-54, 163-68. More on the resources Author: L. R. Gardiner Print Publication Details: L. R. Gardiner, 'Carmichael, Sir Thomas David Gibson [Baron Carmichael] (1859 - 1926)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, Melbourne University Press, 1979, pp 564-565. 80. John George Murray, Marquis of Tullibardine, afterwards 8th Duke of Atholl 1909-01 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stewart-Murray%2C_8th_Duke_of_Atholl Lt.-Col. John George Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl KT GCVO CB DSO PC ADC (December 15, 1871 – March 16, 1942) was a British peer and soldier, known as the Marquess of Tullibardine from 1871 to 1917. Lord Tullibardine was born in 1871 at Blair Castle, Perthshire, the son of John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl and was educated at Eton College. He rose to the rank of Second Lieutenant in 1892 in the service of the Royal Horse Guards and to Lieutenant a year later. He fought in the Battle of Khartoum, the Battle of Atbara, was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.) on 15 130
November 1898 and rose to the rank of Captain a year later. From 1899 to 1902, he fought in the Second Boer War and rose to Brevet Major in 1900. On July 20, 1899, Lord Tullibardine married Katharine Ramsay, daughter of Sir James Ramsay, 10th Baronet at St Margaret's Church, Westminster. He was invested as a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (M.V.O.) on 14 October 1902 and gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1903. He was Grand Master of Scottish Freemasons between 1908 and 1913 and was M.P. (Conservative) for West Perthshire between 1910 and 1917. Lord Tullibardine fought in the First World War, where he gained the rank of Temporary Brigadier-General in 1918 and was invested as a Knight of the Thistle (K.T.) that year. He was also Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland between 1918 and 1920. He was Aide-de-camp to King George V between 1920 and 1931 and was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.) in 1921. He was also Lord Chamberlain between 1921 and 1922 and was later granted the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh. In 1942, the Duke of Atholl died, aged 70, without issue and his titles passed to his brother, James Stewart-Murray. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Marjory_Stewart-Murray%2C_Duchess_of_Atholl Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, DBE (6 November 1874 – 21 October 1960) was a Scottish noblewoman and Unionist politician. Christened Katharine Marjory Ramsay, the daughter of Sir James Ramsay, 10th Baronet of Banff, she was educated at Wimbledon High School and the Royal College of Music. On 20 July 1899, she married Marquess of Tullibardine, who succeeded his father as the 8th Duke of Atholl in 1917, whereupon Katharine became the Duchess of Atholl and the Marchioness of Tullibardine. She was active in Scottish social service and local government, and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1918. She was the Scottish Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Kinross and West Perthshire from 1923 – 1938, and served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education from 1924 – 1929, the first woman to serve in a Conservative government. She resigned the Conservative whip first in 1935 over the India Bill and the "socialist tendency" of the government's domestic policy. Resuming the Whip she resigned it again in 1937 over the Anglo-Italian Agreement. Finally she resigned her seat in parliament in 1938 in opposition to Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement of Adolf Hitler. She stood in the subsequent by-election as an Independent but lost her seat. The Duchess had sometimes confusing opinions. She argued that she actively opposed totalitarian regimes and practices. In 1931 she published The Conscription of a People - a protest against the abuse of rights in the Soviet Union. According to her autobiography Working Partnership (1958) it was at the prompting of Ellen Wilkinson that in April 1937 she, Eleanor Rathbone, and Wilkinson, went to Spain to observe the effects of the Spanish Civil War. In Valencia , Barcelona and Madrid she saw the impact of Luftwaffe bombing on behalf of the Nationalists, visited prisoners of war held by the Republicans and considered the impact of the conflict on women and children in particular. Her book Searchlight on Spain resulted from this involvement. However, Cowling cites her as saying that she supported the Republican government because "a government [Franco's] which used Moors could not be a national government". Her opposition to the British policy of non-intervention in Spain epitomised her attitudes and actions. She was also a keen composer, composing music to accompany the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson. References Atholl, Duchess of, (Editor), Military History of Perthshire (1660-1902), 2 volumes, 1908. Atholl, Duchess of, Women and Politics, 1931. Atholl, Duchess of, Conscription of a People, 1931. Atholl, Duchess of, Main Facts of the Indian Problem, 1933. Atholl, Duchess of, Searchlight on Spain, 1st & 2nd editions June 1938; 3rd revised edition September 1938 (P/B). Cowling, Maurice, The Impact of Hitler - British Politics and Policy 1933-1940, Cambridge University Press, 1975, p.403, ISBN 0-521-20582-4. 81. Sir Robert King Stewart of Murdostoun 1913-16 b. 1853; suc. 1866 http://www.rks919.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ Lodge Robert King Stewart No 919, a Masonic Lodge in the Middle Ward of Lanarkshire under the Grand Lodge of Scotland. http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/mlemen/mlemen087.htm Son of Robert Stewart and Isabella King. Robert Stewart - 1810- 12 Sep 1866 Stewart trained in accountancy before acquiring his father's iron and coal business at Cleland. Discovery of a seam of blackband ironstone led to considerable wealth. He joined the Glasgow Town Council in 1842 and took up a series of posts: as river bailie in 1843, ordinary magistrate in 1845 and senior bailie or acting chief magistrate in 1847. He was active, on horseback and in his office, in suppressing civil disturbances in 1848. His period as Lord Provost (1851-1854) coincided with the question of a water supply for Glasgow. He retired from the council at the end of 1855 and died on 12 September 1866. He had married Isabella King in 1852 and she, along with a daughter and two sons, survived him. MR. STEWART, like several of his predecessors in the office of Lord Provost, was a native of Glasgow. He was born in 1810. His father was a native of Ayrshire, a circumstance which awakened in the breast of his son, while he was still a mere boy, a longing to connect himself with that county by the purchase of an estate as soon as fortune should enable him to do so - a desire, however, which, in as far as Ayrshire was concerned, was not destined to be fulfilled. At a very early age he was placed in the counting-house of Mr. Dixon of Govanhill, father of the 131
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