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Lieutenant-Colonel
Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet DSO PC (
27 May 1876 –
30 March 1940) was a
Scottish Unionist politician.
His father,
Sir John Gilmour, 1st Baronet was chairman of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist party, and was created a baronet in 1897, Gilmour succeeded him as baronet.
Educated at
Trinity College, Glenalmond,
University of Edinburgh and
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he served in South Africa in 1900-1901 with the 20th (Fife and Forfar) Company of
Imperial Yeomanry and was awarded the Queen's medal with 4 clasps and was twice mentioned in despatches. His letters from the Boer War were published in
1996 under the tile "Clearly My Duty" by his son,
Sir John Gilmour, 3rd Baronet.
He again served in
World War I with the
Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, where he was again mentioned in despatches and awarded the
DSO with bar. He was Master of the Fife Fox Hounds, 1902-1906 and a Member of Fife County Council 1901-1910.
He unsuccessfully contested
East Fife in 1906 and was elected as Member of Parliament for
East Renfrewshire from 1910-1918 and for
Glasgow Pollok from 1918 until 1940.
He was a Junior
Lord of the Treasury in 1921-1922,
Scottish Unionist Whip from 1919-1922 and in 1924. He was appointed as
Secretary for Scotland in 1924, and became the first
Secretary of State for Scotland when the post was upgraded in 1926. He was an
Orangeman and whilst some may see his appointment as
anti-Catholic it should be pointed out that it was Gilmour who, as the Secretary for Scotland, repudiated the Church of Scotland's highly-controversial report entitled "
The Menace of the Irish Race to our Scottish Nationality".
Later in his career he served as
Minister of Shipping during the early months of the
Second World War but died in office in
1940.
He was
Rector of the University of Edinburgh, 1926-1929 and was awarded honorary degrees by the
University of Glasgow in 1925, the
University of Edinburgh in 1927 and the
University of St Andrews in 1929. He was a Brigadier with the
Royal Company of Archers. He had previously inherited his father's
baronetcy in 1920.
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