Sir Michael Hugh Shaw-Stewart, 8th Baronet (11 July 1854 – 29 June 1942) was a Scottish politician, soldier and landowner.

Biography

He was the eldest son of

Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet Colonel Sir Michael Robert Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet (26 November 1826 – 10 December 1903) was a British baronet and Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1855 to 1865. He was the son of Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 6 ...

, and Lady Octavia Grosvenor, daughter of

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. He was educated at

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and

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. He was a Captain in the 4th Battalion (Princess Louise's), the

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Argyll (; archaically Argyle, in modern Gaelic, ), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland. Argyll is of ancient origin, and corresponds to most of the part of the ancient kingdom of ...

and Honorary Colonel of the 5/6th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He was unsuccessful

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parliamentary candidate for

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in 1885, and was elected for

East Renfrewshire East Renfrewshire ( sco, Aest Renfrewshire; gd, Siorrachd Rinn Friù an Ear) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. Until 1975, it formed part of the county of Renfrewshire for local government purposes along with the modern council areas of ...

in 1886, holding the seat until 1906. In 1903, he succeeded his father in the baronetcy and as

Laird Laird () is the owner of a large, long-established Scottish estate. In the traditional Scottish order of precedence, a laird ranked below a baron and above a gentleman. This rank was held only by those lairds holding official recognition in ...

of Ardgowan. He was awarded the CB in the

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and knighted in the same order in the

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. He was

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from 1922 until his death and was also chairman of the county council. In 1883, he married Lady Alice Emma Thynne , daughter of

John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath (1 March 1831 – 20 April 1896), styled Viscount Weymouth between March and June 1837, was a British peer and a diplomat for almost sixty years. Background and education Born in St James's, he was the ...

. There were no surviving children of the marriage. He died in a nursing home in Glasgow, aged 87. He was succeeded by his nephew, Col.

Sir Walter Guy Shaw-Stewart, 9th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as p ...

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* 1854 births 1942 deaths Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders officers Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Lord-Lieutenants of Renfrewshire Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Scottish justices of the peace UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912) People educated at Eton College {{Conservative-UK-MP-1850s-stub

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