Hector Seymour Peter Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, AE, PC (4 October 1922 – 30 August 2006), was a Conservative & Unionist Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Dumfriesshire for over 32 years, from 1964 to 1997, and then a life peer in the House of Lords. After piloting flying boats in the Second World ...
Monro, Robert (d.1633) (DNB00) - Wikisource, the free online library
19 Jul 2013 ... MONRO or MUNRO, ROBERT (d. 1633), styled the 'Black Baron,' eighteenth chief of Foulis, was the eldest son of Hector Monro of Foulis, by Anne, daughter of Hugh, sixth lord Fraser of Lovat. His father died on 14 Nov. 1603, and while a minor he received a dispensation and special license from the king, ...
30 Aug 2006 ... Lord Monro of Langholm. OCTOBER 4, 1922 - AUGUST 30, 2006. Genial Conservative politician who stood up for the Scottish interest in all matters from farming and defence to rugby. HECTOR MONRO was the last of a generation of Scottish Conservative MPs who could recall the days when the party ...
Hector Monro - Australian Academy of the Humanities
Hector Monro — he never used 'David' — was born in Whangarei, a small provincial town in New Zealand's far North, and is still, so far as is known, the only philosopher to have such an origin. He came of a cultivated and book- loving family that was always poor on account of the father's ill-health; it is entirely characteristic ...
Hector Munro, 8th laird of Novar - Wikipedia
General Sir Hector Munro, 8th laird of Novar KB (1726 – 27 December 1805) was a British soldier who became the ninth Commander-in-Chief of India (1764–1765 ). Contents. [hide]. 1 Early military career in Scotland; 2 Apprehension of Jacobite rebels; 3 War in India; 4 Member of Parliament; 5 Return to India; 6 Family ...
Obituary: Lord Monro of Langholm | Politics | The Guardian
31 Aug 2006 ... Hector Monro, who has died aged 83, served as Dumfries's MP from 1964 until 1997. Dubbed "the last of the decent Tories" by a Scottish Labour opponent, Norman (now Lord) Hogg, another opponent, Brian Wilson, judged his actions over the 1988 Lockerbie disaster when a Pan American Boeing 747 ...
Lord Monro - Telegraph
31 Aug 2006 ... Lord Monro, who died yesterday aged 83, was — as Hector Monro — Conservative MP for Dumfries for 33 years; his publicly-displayed anguish over the Lockerbie disaster in his constituency, in 1988, made an indelible impression on political friends and foes alike. Monro was an affable, compassionate ...
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