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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.
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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
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Lodge Robert King Stewart No 919, a Masonic Lodge in the Middle Ward of Lanarkshire under the Grand Lodge of Scotland.
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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
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