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 John Granville Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, TD, DL (16 December 1906 – 25 May 1996) was a British landowner and Conservative Party politician. An MP from 1942 to 1965, he notably served as Chairman of the 1922 Committee between 1955 an ...

and the Honourable Margaret Esther Lucie Smith. He married Clare Barclay, daughter of Anthony Lister Barclay, on 14 October 1952. They had three children: *Hon. Fiona Elizabeth Morrison (born 1954), married

Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard, (born 12 March 1951), is a British soldier and businessman. In 1987, he succeeded to his father's titles. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers in the House of Lords, elected to sit after the passing o ...

in 1975 and had four children. *

Alastair Morrison, 3rd Baron Margadale Alistair is a masculine given name. It is an Anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic '' Alasdair''. The latter is most likely a Scottish Gaelic variant of the Norman French Alexandre or Latin Alexander, which was incorporated into English in the s ...

(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. After

Ludgrove Ludgrove, or Ludgrave, or Ludgraves, was an estate and farm in Middlesex between Monken Hadley in the west and Cockfosters in the east in what is now north London. It was centered on Ludgrove Farm (the Blue House) near to Cockfosters. History The ...

and

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he attended the

Royal Agricultural College ;(from Virgil's Georgics)"Caring for the Fieldsand the Beasts" , established = 2013 - University status – College , type = Public , president = King Charles , vice_chancellor = Peter McCaffery , students ...

. He was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1949 before transferring into the

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and reaching the rank of Major in 1964. He was a member of

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in 1955 and again from 1973 to 1977, as well as chairman of the West Wiltshire Conservative Association from 1967 to 1971. He went on to be appointed as Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry in 1982 and then of the

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from 1984 until 1989. The family seat is the Fonthill estate in southern Wiltshire. Morrison took over the Fonthill Stud from his father in 1972, and had success in several classic horseraces.

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