James Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale

Maj James Ian Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale TD DL (17 July 1930 – 6 April 2003) was a British peer.

Morrison was the son of Major John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale and the Honourable Margaret Esther Lucie Smith. He married Clare Barclay, daughter of Anthony Lister Barclay, on 14 October 1952. They had three children:[1]

• Hon. Fiona Elizabeth Morrison (born 1954), married Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard in 1975 and had four children.
• Alastair Morrison, 3rd Baron Margadale (born 4 April 1958), married Lady Sophia Cavendish in 1988 and had two children.
• Hon. Hugh ("Hughie") Morrison (born 1960), married Jane Jenks in 1986 and had two children.

He was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1949[2] before transferring into the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and reaching the rank of Major in 1964.[3] He was a member of Wiltshire County Council in 1955 and again from 1973 to 1977, as well as chairman of the West Wiltshire Conservative Association from 1967 to 1971.[1] He went on to be appointed as Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry in 1982[4] and then of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry from 1984 until 1989.[5]

The family seat is the Fonthill estate in southern Wiltshire.[1] Morrison took over the Fonthill Stud from his father in 1972, and had success in several classic horseraces.[6]

References

1. "Obituaries: Lord Margadale". The Telegraph. London. 9 April 2003. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
2. "No. 38618". The London Gazette (Supplement). 24 May 1949. p. 2555.
3. "No. 43382". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 July 1964. p. 6091.
4. "No. 49180". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 November 1982. p. 15621.
5. "No. 49787". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 June 1984. p. 8742.
6. "Stud". The Fonthill Estate. Retrieved 31 May 2019.

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Morrison	Baron Margadale 1996–2003	Succeeded by Alastair Morrison