James Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale
Major James Ian Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale, TD, DL (17 July 1930 – 6 April 2003), was a British peer.
The Right Honourable The Lord Margadale TD DL | |
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| Member of the House of Lords | |
Lord Temporal | |
| as a hereditary peer 25 May 1996 – 11 November 1999 | |
| Preceded by | The 1st Baron Margadale |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | James Ian Morrison 17 July 1930 |
| Died | 6 April 2003 (aged 72) |
Morrison was the son of Major John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, 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, in 1975 and had four children.
- Alastair Morrison, 3rd Baron Margadale (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 and Eton he attended the Royal Agricultural College. He was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1949 before transferring into the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and reaching the rank of Major in 1964. He was a member of Wiltshire County Council 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 Royal Wessex Yeomanry 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.