Jillian Rosamond Florence Douglas

Charles married Anne Morgan [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Dalmahoy, Kirknewton, Midlothian, Scotland

Notes:

21st Earl of Morton (1976), younger son of Hon. Charles William Sholto Douglas (see Morton E.). Educated at Canford School, Dorset.

Farming at Lukers Farm, Brinkworth, Wilts., 1949-52, and since 1952 at Dalmahoy, Kirknewton, Midlothian.

Senior Partner Dalmahoy Farms and Chairman Dalmahoy Country Club 1978. Chairman Caledonian Building Society and later Scottish Director British and West Building Society.

In 1982, he was appointed a deputy lieutenant of West Lothian, and he served as Lord Lieutenant of West Lothian from 1985 to 2002.

Played polo for Scotland 1977 and 1979 in Kenya.

John married Mary Sheila Gibbs, Countess of Morton on 20 Sep 1949 in Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire. Mary (daughter of Rev. John Stanley Gibbs, MC and Mary Rosamond McCorquodale) was born on 7 Mar 1927 in Badmington, Gloucestershire; died on 1 May 2016. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Dalmahoy, Kirknewton, Midlothian, Scotland
• Baptism: 3 Apr 1927, Badmington, Gloucestershire

Notes:

Countess of Morton. Baptised at Badminton, Glos. on 3 April 1927. Educated at St. Michael's Watermoor, Cirencester and Cheltenham Ladies College.

Living at Dalmahoy Home Farm, Kirknewton. Partner of Dalmahoy Farms and Director of Dalmahoy Country Club (1978). Plays polo in the Dalmahoy Team.

Portrait: By A. Beauchamp Cameron (1964) last in her possession.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Neapuke, Waikato, New Zealand

Charles married Florence Timson on 15 Apr 1926. Florence (daughter of Major Henry Thomas Timson and Edith Theodesia Glyn) was born on 25 May 1897; died in 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Dec 1879, Abingdon, Berkshire; St Helen's
• Residence: 1891, Hagley, Worcestershire; Age: 11; Relation to Head of House: Son
• Residence: 1901, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire; Age: 21; Relation to Head of House: Visitor

Notes:

Baptised 14 December 1879 at St. Helen's, Abingdon. Educated at Haileybury College, 1893-8, matric. at Oxford (Keble College) 1898, BA 1904, MA 1908. Student at Cuddesdon Theological College, 1904. Buried at Didmarton 2 February 1952. Memorial Tablet in St. John Baptist's Church, Shipton Moyne, nr. Tetbury.

At Haileybury he won mile and half mile races 2 years; at Keble College the half and quarter mile 3 years. President of Keble Coll. Athletic Club 1901. At Oxford House, Bethnal Green, 1902. Travelled round the world with a pupil 1903. Deacon 1904; Priest 1905. Curate of St. Pancras in the Borough of that name 1904-8; member of the Bush Brotherhood of Charleville, Queensland, 1908-11; Vicar of St. Frideswide's, Poplar, and Head of the Christ Church (Oxford) Mission there 1911-13; Vicar of Christ Church Telford Road, Kensington, 1913-19; Vicar of Badminton, co. Glos. from 1919.

Chaplain to the North Somerset Yeomanry 1911-30. In the Great War he was chaplain to the Australian Voluntary Hospital at Wimereux January-April 1915; to the 8th Cavalry Brigade (Brit. Exp. Force) September 1915-18; to the Garrison and Hospitals at Exeter February-July 1918; to the 3rd Cavalry Division (B.E.F.) 1918-19. Mentioned in despatches 1917; Military Cross 1918. 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, and Allies' (Victory) Medal of the Great War.

Rector of Shipton Moyne 1937-50. Rural Dean of Tetbury, Glos. Hon. Canon of Gloucester. Special Constable (Head) in 2nd World War. Chairman of Tetbury Grammar School.

Portrait: Pastel by W. E. Miller last in possession of his daughter Sheila (Countess of Morton).

Birth:
Vicarage

John married Mary Rosamond McCorquodale on 24 Apr 1924 in Winslow, Buckinghamshire. Mary (daughter of Norman McCorquodale, OBE, JP and Constance Helena Burton) was born on 19 Oct 1897 in St George Hanover Square, London; died on 17 Feb 1966 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire; was buried on 22 Feb 1966 in Didmarton, Gloucestershire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1st daughter of Norman McCorquodale of Winslow Hall, co. Bucks. (for whose lineage see McCorquodale of Dulchroy in Burke's 'Landed Gentry'), by Constance, 3rd daughter of Edmund C. Burton of The Lodge, Daventry. Died 17 February 1966 in Cirencester Hospital. Buried Didmarton, 22 February 1966.


Died:
Cirencester Hospital