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Lord Lieutenant Of Inverness
The Lord-Lieutenant of Inverness is the British monarch's personal representative in an area which has been defined since 1975 as consisting of the local government districts of Inverness, Badenoch and Strathspey, and Lochaber, in Scotland, and this definition was renewed by the Lord-Lieutenants (Scotland) Order 1996. The area of the lieutenancy used to be the county of Inverness, which was abolished as a local government area by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The districts were created, by the 1973 act, as districts of the two-tier Highland region and abolished as local government areas under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, which turned the Highland region into a unitary council area. List of Lord-Lieutenants of Inverness *Sir James Grant, 8th Baronet 17 March 1794 – 1809 *Francis Ogilvy-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield 2 September 1809 – 30 July 1853 *Thomas Alexander Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat 26 August 1853 – 1873 * Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat 18 April 187 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord-lieutenant
A lord-lieutenant ( ) is the British monarch's personal representative in each lieutenancy area of the United Kingdom. Historically, each lieutenant was responsible for organising the county's militia. In 1871, the lieutenant's responsibility over the local militia was removed. However, it was not until 1921 that they formally lost the right to call upon able-bodied men to fight when needed. Lord-lieutenant is now an honorary titular position usually awarded to a retired notable person in the county. Origins England and Wales Lieutenants were first appointed to a number of Historic counties of England, English counties by King Henry VIII in the 1540s, when the military functions of the sheriffs were handed over to them. Each lieutenant raised and was responsible for the efficiency of the local militia units of his county, and afterwards of the yeomanry and volunteers. He was commander of these forces, whose officers he appointed. These commissions were originally of tempora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir James Grant, 8th Baronet
Sir James Grant of Grant, 8th Baronet, (19 May 1738, Moray – 18 February 1811, Castle Grant) was a Scottish landowner, politician and Chief of Clan Grant. He went by the nickname of ''the good Sir James''. Life Grant was the son of Sir Ludovick Grant, 7th Baronet, and Lady Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of the statesman James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield. Born in Moray, Scotland, he was educated at Westminster School and Christ's College, Cambridge. Grant succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Elginshire in 1761, a seat he held until 1768. In 1773 Grant succeeded his father as eighth Baronet of Colquhoun. In 1783 he was a co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and served as its first Physical President. From 1790 to 1795 he was MP for Banffshire. He also served as Lord Lieutenant of Inverness-shire. He was colonel of a fencible regiment, the Grant Fencible Regiment raised in 1793. He died at the family seat of Castle Grant in February 1811, aged 72, and was succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Lieutenancies Of Scotland
The lieutenancy areas of Scotland are the areas used for the ceremonial lord-lieutenants, the monarch's representatives, in Scotland. The lord-lieutenants' titles chosen by the monarch and his legal advisers are mainly based on placenames of the traditional counties of Scotland. In 1794 permanent lieutenancies were established by Royal Warrant. By the Militia Act 1797 (37 Geo.3, C.103), the lieutenants appointed "for the Counties, Stewartries, Cities, and Places" were given powers to raise and command County Militia Units. While in their lieutenancies, lord lieutenants are among the few individuals in Scotland officially permitted to fly a banner of the Royal Arms of Scotland, the "Lion Rampant" as it is more commonly known. Lieutenancy areas are different from the current local government council areas and their committee areas. They also differ from other subdivisions of Scotland including sheriffdoms and former regions and districts. The Lord Provosts of Aberdeen, Dundee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Precedence In Scotland
The order of precedence in Scotland was fixed by Royal Warrant in 1905. Amendments were made by further Warrants in 1912, 1952, 1958, 1999 to coincide with the establishment of the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government and most recently in 2012. The relative precedence of peers of Scotland is determined by the Act of Union 1707. Gentlemen Royalty, high officials, et al. Royal family *The King *The Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (Lord Hodge) *The Duke of Rothesay *The Earl of Dumbarton *Prince George of Wales *Prince Louis of Wales *Archie Mountbatten-Windsor *The Earl of Inverness *The Earl of Forfar *The Earl of Snowdon *The Lord Culloden *The Earl of St Andrews *Prince Michael of Kent High Officers of State, et al. Nobility, et al. Dukes, et al. Marquesses, et al. Earls, et al. Judiciary, et al. #Lord Justice General (Lord Carloway) #Lord Clerk Register ( The Lord Mackay of Clashfern) #Lord Advocate (''Office held by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Angus Cameron Of Lochiel
Donald Angus Cameron of Lochiel, DL, JP (born 2 August 1946) is the 27th and present Lochiel of Clan Cameron. He served as honorary Lord Lieutenant of Inverness from 2002 to 2021. Early life Cameron was born in Kensington, London, the eldest son of four children born to Sir Donald Cameron, 26th Lochiel and Lady Margot (née Gathorne-Hardy), only daughter of Hon. Nigel Gathorne-Hardy and Doris Featherston Johnston, of Wellington, New Zealand. Cameron was educated at Harrow School and he went on to read history at Christ Church, Oxford (MA, FCA). Career and chiefship In 1966 he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (TA). He left the army in 1968 and trained as a chartered accountant. Upon the death of his father in 2004, he assumed the chiefship of Clan Cameron and became the 27th Lochiel. Between 1994 and 1996, he served as president, Highland society of London, a Highland-based charity. In 1986 he was appointed a Deputy lieutenant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gray, Baron Gray Of Contin
James Hector Northey "Hamish" Gray, Baron Gray of Contin, (28 June 1927 – 14 March 2006) was a Scottish Conservative politician and life peer. Gray was born in Inverness and educated at the Inverness Royal Academy. His father owned an Inverness roofing firm. He was commissioned into the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in 1945 and served in India, during partition. He married Judith Waite Brydon in 1953 and they had two sons and a daughter. He was elected as an Independent member of Inverness Council in 1965 and at the 1970 general election he was elected to Parliament as the Conservative and Unionist Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Ross and Cromarty. He was appointed to the Whips' Office in 1971, and he served as a front bench Energy spokesman (1975–1979). Upon the Conservatives' return to government in 1979, he was appointed as the Minister of State for Energy under David Howell, where he remained until the 1983 general election, when he was defeated in the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Hamish Cameron Of Lochiel
Colonel Sir Donald Hamish Cameron of Lochiel, (12 September 1910 – 26 May 2004) was a Scottish soldier, landowner, businessman and the 26th Lochiel of Clan Cameron. He was known simply as Lochiel while clan chief and in the Jacobite peerage was regarded as the 9th Lord Lochiel. Cameron served as commanding officer of the Lovat Scouts throughout the Second World War. He succeeded his father as Chief of the Camerons in 1951 and later served as Lord Lieutenant of Inverness. His grandfather was the 5th Duke of Montrose and his cousin, the 7th Duke of Montrose was a prominent Rhodesian government minister. Early life Born at Buchanan Castle near Drymen, the ancestral seat of his mother, Cameron was the son of Sir Donald Walter Cameron, 25th Lochiel and Lady Hermione Graham (1882–1978), daughter of Douglas Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose. After attending Harrow, the 19-year-old Master of Lochiel was commissioned as an officer in the Lovat Scouts before going to Balliol College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Godfrey Macdonald, 7th Baron Macdonald
Alexander Godfrey Macdonald, 7th Baron Macdonald, Order of the British Empire, MBE (27 June 1909 – 1970) was a grandson of Ronald Bosville-Macdonald, 6th Baron Macdonald. Born Alexander Godrey Bosville-Macdonald, he changed his surname to Macdonald on becoming Chief of the Name and Arms of Macdonald. On 14 June 1945, he married Anne Whitaker and they had three children: *Janet Ann Macdonald (born 2 November 1946) *Godfrey Macdonald, 8th Baron Macdonald, Godfrey James Macdonald, 8th Baron Macdonald (born 28 November 1947) *Alexander Donald Archibald Macdonald (born 3 September 1953) References * Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th Edition, edited by Charles Mosley, Wilmington, Delaware, 2003, vol II, pp. 2474–2475, 1909 births 1970 deaths Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge Lord-Lieutenants of Inverness-shire Members of the Order of the British Empire Barons Macdonald, 7 {{Ireland-baron-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Walter Cameron Of Lochiel
Colonel Sir Donald Walter Cameron of Lochiel, (4 November 1876 – 11 October 1951) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War. He was the Chiefs of Clan Cameron, 25th Lochiel of Clan Cameron, succeeding his father, Donald Cameron, 24th Lochiel, the 24th Lochiel in 1906. Lochiel began his career as an officer during the Second Boer War in Southern Africa and was later based in Presidencies and provinces of British India, India. In 1914 he was asked by Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Herbert Kitchener to raise the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and served as Colonel of the regiment from 1914 to 1916. The casualties his battalions sustained during the war was said to have deeply affected him. After the war he retired to his estates in Lochaber with interests in sheep farming and land management. Early life Lochiel was born in 1876 at Dalkeith Palace, the eldest son of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Cameron Of Lochiel (1835–1905)
Donald Cameron of Lochiel (5 April 1835 – 30 November 1905) was a British Conservative politician, diplomat and courtier. He was an ambassador of the Elgin embassy to China and later sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885 and served as Lord Lieutenant of Inverness from 1887. Cameron was Groom-in-Waiting for Queen Victoria between 1874 and 1880. He was the 24th Lochiel of Clan Cameron. Early life Donald Cameron was born in Richmond, Surrey, the eldest son of Captain Donald Cameron, 23rd Lochiel and Vere Catherine Louisa Hobart, daughter of Hon. George Vere Hobart. His mother, sister of the 5th Earl of Buckinghamshire and a cousin of Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, was a close friend of Anne Lister. Lochaber joyously celebrated the birth of Cameron during the spring of 1835, with commemorative dinners held by Camerons "from Ballachulish Ferry to the Marches of Knoydart", as well as the lighting of bonfires on many prominent peaks, including Ben Nevis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat
Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat and 2nd Baron Lovat (21 December 1828 – 6 September 1887) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier. He was responsible for overseeing the reconstruction of Beaufort Castle, and was the 22nd Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat. Early life Lovat was the eldest of four sons and three daughters born to Thomas Alexander Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat and Hon. Charlotte Georgina, daughter of George William Jerningham, 8th Baron Stafford. Among his siblings was Amelia Charlotte Fraser (wife of Charles Scott-Murray of Danesfield), Frances Giorgiana Fraser (wife of Sir Pyers Mostyn, 8th Baronet), Charlotte Henrietta Fraser (wife of Sir Matthew Sausse, the Chief Justice of Bombay), Alexander Edward Fraser (a Lt.-Col. in the Scots Guards who fought in the Crimean War and married Georgiana Mary Heneage, only daughter of George Fieschi Heneage of Hainton Hall) George Edward Stafford Fraser (who died unmarried), and Henry Thomas Fraser (a Colonel in the 1st Battalion Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Alexander Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat
Thomas Alexander Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat and 1st Baron Lovat, KT (17 June 1802 – 28 June 1875) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the 21st Chief ''MacShimidh'' of the Clan Fraser of Lovat, succeeding the notorious Jacobite Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat. Early life Born on 17 June 1802, he was the son of Amelia ( née Leslie) Fraser and Alexander Fraser, 9th of Strichen, a Captain of the 1st Dragoon Guards who died on 28 October 1803, shortly after his birth. His paternal grandparents were Alexander Fraser, 8th of Strichen and Jean (née Menzies) Fraser (a daughter of William Menzies and niece of James Menzies of Culdares). His maternal grandparents were John Leslie, 22nd Baron of Balquhain and the former Violet Dalzell. In 1821, Fraser commissioned Aberdeen architect John Smith to design a country house known as Strichen House. Career In 1815, upon the death of Archibald Campbell Fraser (who outlived all of his children), Fraser became the 21st Chief of the Clan Fraser, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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