Mungo David Malcolm Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield (9 August 1900 – 2 September 1971), styled Lord Scone from 1906 to 1935, was a Scottish
Unionist Party politician.
Mansfield was the son of
Alan Murray, 6th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield
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, and his wife Margaret Mary Helen, daughter of
Rear-Admiral Sir Malcolm MacGregor, 4th Baronet. He was active in the extreme anti-Catholic
Scottish Protestant League
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Creation and initial years
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before breaking with them following the 1929 United Kingdom general election. This came about when the SPL leader
Alexander Ratcliffe
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offered to support the
Unionist candidate for
Stirling and Falkirk
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if he supported the partial repeal of the Education (Scotland) Act 1918 which allowed Catholic schools into the state system funded through education rates. When this didn't happen Ratcliffe stood as an 'Independent Protestant', coming in third behind the Unionist and
Labour Party candidates.
Scone entered Parliament for
Perth
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in 1931, a seat he held until 1935, when he succeeded his father and entered the
House of Lords
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. He was also Governor of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture from 1925 to 1930,
from 1961 to 1962 and
Lord-Lieutenant of Perthshire
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from 1960 to 1971.
Lord Mansfield and Mansfield married Dorothea Helena, younger daughter of the British diplomat
Sir Lancelot Carnegie, in 1928. He died in September 1971, aged 71, and was succeeded in his titles by his only son
William
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, who also became a Conservative politician. His daughter Malvina married
Douglas Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray
Douglas John Moray Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray (13 February 1928 – 23 September 2011) was a Scottish peer, styled Lord Doune until 1974. The son of Archibald Stuart, 19th Earl of Moray, he succeeded to the earldom of Moray on his father's de ...
. The Countess of Mansfield and Mansfield died in 1985.
In 1933 he was one of eleven people, involved in the appeal that led to the foundation of the
British Trust for Ornithology
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History
Beginnings
In 1931 Max Nicholson wrote:
In the United State ...
(BTO), an organisation for the study of
birds
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in the British Isles, of which he became the founding chairman.
Notes
References
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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