Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey,

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(2 March 1890 – 17 November 1969) was a British politician and

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from 12 August 1939 until 26 April 1944. The only child of James Charles Barclay-Harvey, of Dinnet House,

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, he was educated at

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and at

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, and served in the 7th (Deeside Highland) Battalion of the

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from 1909 to 1915, with the Home Staff from 1915 to 1916, with the

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in London from 1916 to 1918 and in Paris from 1918 to 1919. Barclay-Harvey was adopted as prospective Unionist candidate for East Aberdeenshire in 1914 and was

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(MP) for Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West from 1923 to 1929 and from 1931 to 1939. He was

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to Sir John Gilmour from 1924 to 1929 and to Sir

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from 1932 to 1936, and was

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ed in the

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, for "political and public services". He was married firstly, in 1912, to Margaret Joan, daughter of Henry de la Poer Beresford Heywood, of Wrentnall House,

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, by whom he had a daughter. He married secondly, in 1938, to a widow, Lady Muriel Felicia Vere Liddell-Grainger, daughter of the 12th Earl of Lindsey, becoming stepfather of

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. He was Honorary Colonel of the 4th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders from 1939 to 1945, and was a Member of Aberdeen County Council from 1945 to 1955. He was a member of the

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. He was appointed the

in March 1939, whereupon he

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from the House of Commons on 8 March and was appointed . He, his wife and two stepchildren then moved to

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. He took office on 12 August, shortly before the outbreak of

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. His principal focus during his tenure was the war effort. His wife, Lady Muriel, founded the Lady Muriel Nurses' Club for servicewomen, and made a habit of visiting numerous

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branches. She also opened the Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens in

on 19 April 1941 and launched the corvette HMAS ''Whyalla'', the first ship from the

shipyard at

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on 12 May 1941. He was also a

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. During his term as Governor (1939–1944), he was also Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of South Australia. The Vice-Regal couple spent as much time as they could at the Vice Regal Summer Residence at Marble Hill, where they restored the gardens. An avid

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, he also had a large-scale outdoor model railway installed there, and in 1943 the

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new steam locomotive class

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number 520 was named after him. He retired from the Vice-Regal post for health reasons on 26 April 1944, whereupon he returned to his Scottish estate which he had inherited in 1924. He served as deputy lieutenant of

(1945), a member of the Aberdeenshire City Council (1945–55) and Grand Master of the

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(1949–53). He wrote ''A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway'', which was published in 1940. He was a Knight of the Order of St John.

Death

Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey died in London on 17 November 1969, aged 79.

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