Sir Ivar Iain Colquhoun, 8th Baronet, JP, DL (4 January 1916 – 31 January 2008) was a British

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Biography

Early life

Sir Ivar was the son of

Sir Iain Colquhoun, 7th Baronet Sir Iain Colquhoun, 7th Baronet, 29th Laird of Luss, KT, DSO & Bar, FRSE (20 June 1887 – 12 November 1948), was a Scottish landowner and British Army soldier during the First World War. Military career During the First World War, Colquho ...

and his wife Geraldine Bryde (Dinah) Tennant. He was educated at Eton.

Career

He was working at a

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in Finland at the outbreak of

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, and joined a Territorial Army

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of the

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as a private soldier. When the

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invaded

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in November 1939, he was seconded to the 5th (Ski) Battalion Scots Guards. This was disbanded after Finland was forced to accept Russian terms in March 1940. In April 1940 he was commissioned as a

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in the

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, and served in

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during the

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, later to become the subject of some of his drier reminiscences. On 2 September 1944, as a

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lieutenant, he was attached to the

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, to serve as a liaison officer, and subsequently as a

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in the

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. He served as a Justice of the Peace for over twenty years. He was a deputy lieutenant for

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and for twenty years was the chairman of the British Sailors' Society.

Title

He was the eighth

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and the 30th Laird of

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. As a member of the

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, he made regular appearances at clan gatherings and clan games and endorsed the clan museum. From 1949 until 1982, he was chieftain of the Luss Highland Games in July.

Personal life

He was married in 1943 to Kathleen Nimmo Duncan (died 17 April 2007), the second daughter of Walter Atholl Duncan of London. His wife's sister Marjorie Ray Duncan had married the 6th

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in 1938. Sir Ivar Colquhoun of Luss and Lady Colquhoun had three children: *Torquhil Colquhoun, younger of Luss (b 1944, d 1963); *Iona Mary (b 1945), now the Dowager Duchess of Argyll, who married the 12th Duke of Argyll (1937-2001) in 1964, and had one son (the present Duke) and one daughter; and * Malcolm Rory Colquhoun (b 20 Dec 1947), 9th baronet. He was styled ''Malcolm Colquhoun of Luss, younger of Luss'', following the death of his elder brother as the heir to the baronetcy and estate. He married for the second time in October 1989 Katharine A.H. Mears, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs A.C. Mears, of Canberra, Australia, and has issue by her.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Colquhoun, Ivar 1916 births 2008 deaths People educated at Eton College Grenadier Guards officers Coldstream Guards officers British Army personnel of World War II Deputy Lieutenants of Dunbartonshire Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders soldiers Scots Guards soldiers Royal Artillery officers