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96. Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey of Kinord 1949-53 (G.M of South Australia, 1941-44)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Barclay-Harvey
Sir (Charles) Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, KCMG (1890–1969) was a British politician and
Governor of South Australia from 12 August 1939 until 26 April 1944.
Educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, he served in the 7th Battalion of the Gordon
Highlanders from 1909-1915, with the Home Staff from 1915-1916, with the Ministry of Munitions
in London from 1916-1918 and in Paris from 1918-1919.
Barclay-Harvey was adopted as prospective Unionist candidate for Aberdeenshire East in 1914
and was Member of Parliament for Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West 1923-1929 and 1931-
1939. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir John Gilmour 1924-1929 and to Sir Godfrey
Collins 1932-1936.
He was Honorary Colonel of the 4th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders from 1939-1945, and
was a Member of Aberdeen County Council from 1945-1955. He was a member of the Royal
Company of Archers.
Barclay-Harvey was married to Lady Muriel Barclay-Harvey, who opened the Pioneer Women's
Memorial Gardens in Adelaide on 19 April 1941 and launched the HMAS Whyalla, the first ship
from the World War II shipyard at Whyalla on 12 May 1941.
Sir Malcolm was Grand Master of South Australia and Northern Territory in the Freemasons from
1941 to 1943.
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130131b.htm
BARCLAY-HARVEY, SIR CHARLES MALCOLM (1890-1969), landowner and governor, was born on 2 March 1890 at Kensington,
London, son of James Charles Barclay-Harvey, gentleman, and his wife Ellen Marianne, née Hills. Educated at Eton and Christ
Church, Oxford, Malcolm was commissioned in the 7th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders, Territorial Force, on 1 August 1909. On
7 February 1912 in the parish church of St Margaret, Westminster, he married Margaret Joan Heywood (d.1935); they were to have
one daughter. After being invalided out of the army in 1915, he was attached to the British Ministry of Munitions in World War I.
As the Conservative member for Kincardineshire and West Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1923-29, he sat in the House of Commons.
In 1924 he had succeeded his father as laird of Dinnet, inheriting a 14,000-acre estate in Aberdeenshire, and in 1924-29 was
parliamentary private secretary to the secretary of state for Scotland. Barclay-Harvey regained his parliamentary seat in 1931 and
again held the private secretaryship in 1932-36. He was knighted in 1936. On 23 March 1938 in the crypt chapel of St Stephen,
Westminster, he married a widow Lady Muriel Felicia Vere Liddell-Grainger, daughter of the 12th Earl of Lindsey and granddaughter
of J. C. Cox of Sydney. She was the widow of Captain Henry Hubert Liddell-Grainger (1886-1935); their son, David Ian
Liddell-Grainger (b. 1930) was that GM of Scotland 1969-74 [below].
Upon being appointed governor of South Australia in March 1939, Sir Malcolm resigned from the House of Commons and was
appointed K.C.M.G. With his wife and two stepchildren, he arrived in Adelaide and took office on 12 August, just before the outbreak
of World War II. He worked tirelessly for the war effort and travelled throughout the rural areas; his formidable and energetic wife
founded the Lady Muriel Nurses' Club for servicewomen and visited every Red Cross branch in the State. Whenever possible the
vice-regal couple lived at their summer residence, Marble Hill, in the Adelaide Hills, where they restored the beautiful gardens.
Barclay-Harvey installed a model railway there and in 1943 the South Australian Railways named the first of its new 4-8-4
locomotives after him. On medical advice, he retired on 26 April 1944. During his term he had been honorary colonel of the 4th
Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders; he had also invested profitably in Australian stocks and shares.
Returning to his beloved Scottish estate, which became renowned for its land management, Barclay-Harvey was appointed deputylieutenant
for Aberdeenshire in 1945 and served as a member (1945-55) of the Aberdeenshire County Council. He was grand
master mason (1949-53) of the Freemasons Scottish Constitution and in 1964 was made prior for Scotland of the Order of St John.
He enjoyed shooting and fishing and anything to do with railways: he wrote A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway
(London, 1940) which ran to three editions. A courteous, friendly man who believed that public duty went with privilege, Barclay-
Harvey died in London on 17 November 1969; his wife survived him, as did the daughter of his first marriage.
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