James Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale

Morrison was the eldest son of Major John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale and his wife the Hon. Margaret Esther Lucie Smith, daughter of Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden of the WHSmith family.

Morrison was educated at Ludgrove School, Eton and at the Royal Agricultural College (now Royal Agricultural University).

Morrison was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1949{{London Gazette |issue=38618 |page=2555 |supp=y |date=24 May 1949 }} before transferring into the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and reaching the rank of Major in 1964.{{London Gazette |issue=43382 |page=6091 |supp=y |date=14 July 1964 }} He was a member of Wiltshire County Council in 1955 and again from 1973 to 1977, as well as chairman of the West Wiltshire Conservative Association from 1967 to 1971. He went on to be appointed as Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry in 1982{{London Gazette |issue=49180 |page=15621 |supp=y |date=29 November 1982 }} and then of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry from 1984 until 1989.{{London Gazette |issue=49787 |page=8742 |supp=y |date=26 June 1984 }}

The family seat is the Fonthill estate in southern Wiltshire. Morrison took over the Fonthill Stud from his father in 1972, and had success in several classic horseraces.{{cite web |title=Stud |url=https://www.fonthill.co.uk/ameneties |website=The Fonthill Estate |access-date=31 May 2019}}

Morrison succeeded to the barony and to a seat in the House of Lords upon his father's death in 1996. He ceased to be a member of the Lords on 11 November 1999 following the enactment of the House of Lords Act 1999.

Morrison married Clare Barclay on 14 October 1952. They had three children:{{cite news |title=Obituaries: Lord Margadale |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1427000/Lord-Margadale.html |newspaper=The Telegraph |access-date=10 November 2016 |location=London |date=9 April 2003}}Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, vol 2, page 2615.

• Hon. Fiona Elizabeth Morrison (born 11 November 1954), married Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard in 1975 and has four children.
• Alastair John Morrison, 3rd Baron Margadale (born 4 April 1958), married Lady Sophia Cavendish (daughter of Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and the Hon. Deborah Freeman-Mitford) in 1988 and has two children.
• Hon. Hugh "Hughie" Morrison (born 7 November 1960), married Jane Jenks in 1986 and has two children.

Lord Margadale died in April 2003 at the age of 72. He was succeeded in the barony by his elder son, Alastair.

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