1. Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, KCMG was a British politician and Governor of South Australia from 12 August 1939 until 26 April 1944.
15 Facts About Malcolm Barclay-Harvey
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Malcolm Barclay-Harvey was adopted as prospective Unionist candidate for East Aberdeenshire in 1914 and was Member of Parliament for Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West from 1923 to 1929 and from 1931 to 1939.
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Malcolm Barclay-Harvey was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir John Gilmour from 1924 to 1929 and to Sir Godfrey Collins from 1932 to 1936, and was knighted in the 1936 Birthday Honours, for "political and public services".
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Malcolm Barclay-Harvey was married firstly, in 1912, to Margaret Joan, daughter of Henry de la Poer Beresford Heywood, of Wrentnall House, Shrewsbury, by whom he had a daughter.
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Malcolm Barclay-Harvey married secondly, in 1938, to a widow, Lady Muriel Felicia Vere Liddell-Grainger, daughter of the 12th Earl of Lindsey, becoming stepfather of David Liddell-Grainger.
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Malcolm Barclay-Harvey was Honorary Colonel of the 4th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders from 1939 to 1945, and was a Member of Aberdeen County Council from 1945 to 1955.
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Malcolm Barclay-Harvey was a member of the Royal Company of Archers.
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Malcolm Barclay-Harvey was appointed the Governor of South Australia in March 1939, whereupon he resigned from the House of Commons on 8 March and was appointed.
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Malcolm Barclay-Harvey's principal focus during his tenure was the war effort.
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Malcolm Barclay-Harvey opened the Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens in Adelaide on 19 April 1941 and launched the corvette HMAS Whyalla, the first ship from the World War II shipyard at Whyalla on 12 May 1941.
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Malcolm Barclay-Harvey retired from the Vice-Regal post for health reasons on 26 April 1944, whereupon he returned to his 14,000-acre Scottish estate which he had inherited in 1924.
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Malcolm Barclay-Harvey served as deputy lieutenant of Aberdeenshire, a member of the Aberdeenshire City Council and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland.
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Malcolm Barclay-Harvey wrote A History of the Great North of Scotland Railway, which was published in 1940 by Locomotive Publishing Company with a second edition in 1949, and a subsequent reprint by Ian Allan Publishing in 1998.
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Malcolm Barclay-Harvey was a Knight of the Order of St John.
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Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey died in London on 17 November 1969, aged 79.