John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale
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Major John Granville Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, TD
Territorial Decoration
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, DL
Deputy Lieutenant
In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area; an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county....

 (16 December 1906 – 25 May 1996) was a British
United Kingdom
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 Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)
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 politician.

He was appointed High Sheriff of Wiltshire
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 for 1938 and was Member of Parliament
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 for Salisbury
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 from 1942 until 1965.

From 1967 to 1975, he was President of the Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust
Wiltshire Historic Buildings Trust
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.

He married Hon. Margaret Smith, daughter of William Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden and Lady Esther Gore, on 16 October 1928 and had three children, the two younger of whom became Conservative politicians:
  • James Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale
    James Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale
    James Ian Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale was the son of Major John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale and Hon. Margaret Esther Lucie Smith....

     (17 July 1930 – 6 April 2003)
  • Hon. Sir Charles Andrew Morrison
    Charles Morrison
    Sir Charles Andrew Morrison was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, MP for Devizes constituency from 1964 until 1992.-Background:...

     (25 June 1932 – 9 May 2005)
  • The Rt. Hon. Sir Peter Morrison
    Peter Morrison
    Sir Peter Hugh Morrison PC was a British Conservative politician, MP for Chester from 1974 to 1992, and Parliamentary Private Secretary to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.-Education:...

     (2 June 1944 – 13 July 1995)


In January 1983, Margadale was Gazetted a Deputy Lieutenant
Deputy Lieutenant
In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area; an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county....

 for Wiltshire
Wiltshire
Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...

, together with Mary Salisbury
Mary Salisbury
Mary Ethel Salisbury DL CBE JP , was an English Labour politician in Wiltshire.-Life:Born in 1917 in a mining village in County Durham, one of six children, in 1928 she won a scholarship to Bishop Auckland County School for Girls...

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