Moir Tod Stormonth Darling, Lord Stormonth-Darling

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DL LLD (3 November 1844 – 2 June 1912) was a

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Conservative Party politician and judge.

Life

Stormonth-Darling was born on 3 November 1844, the son of Elizabeth Moir Tod, daughter James Tod of, Deanstoun, and James Stormonth Darling of Lednathie WS (1830-1881). The family lived at 40 Drummond Place in

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. He was educated at Kelso Grammar School then studied law at the

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, graduating with an MA. In November 1888, he was elected in an unopposed by-election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities. from 1888 appointed as

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. He resigned the seat in 1890, when he was appointed to judiciary as a

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, an office which he held until 1908 In 1897 he was President of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club and gave the Toast to Sir Walter at the club's annual dinner. In 1900 he featured in a set of Copes cigarette cards of well known golfers. The card, numbered 49, depicts him standing in a bunker and is entitled "Duffers Yet". He was a Director of both

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and the

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, a member of the Court of the

, a Railway Commissioner for Scotland and (like his father) a member of the

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. He wrote books on golf and also collected ballads. In later years he lived at Balvarran in Perthshire and 10 Great Stuart Street, an impressive Georgian townhouse on the Moray Estate in Edinburgh's West End.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1911-12 He died at home on 2 June 1912 aged 67.

Family

He was married to Ethel Hay Young, daughter of Major William Baird Young (a relation of

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), in 1892. His parents are buried together in the small graveyard at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stormonth Darling, Moir Tod 1844 births 1912 deaths Solicitors general for Scotland Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912) Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities UK MPs 1886–1892 Stormonth Darling Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh