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Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Ninian Edward Crichton-Stuart (15 May 1883 – 2 October 1915) was a British Member of Parliament killed in the First World War. He was the second son of John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute and the Honourable Gwendolen Mary Anne Fitzalan Howard. Lord Ninian was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was commissioned in 1903 into the 3rd Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and then served for two years in 1st Battalion, the Scots Guards. He left the army after his marriage to the Hon. Ismay Preston in 1906 to concentrate on politics. In 1907 he was adopted as the Unionist candidate for the United Boroughs of Cardiff, Cowbridge and Llantrisant. He lost the election to D.A. Thomas in January 1910 but was successful in winning the seat in the December 1910 election. In 1912 he took command of the 6th Battalion, the Welsh Regiment. He was killed in action on 2 October 1915, while leading the 6th Welsh in a night attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, near La Bassée, aged 32. == Family == Lord Ninian married the Honourable Ismay Lucretia Mary Preston, daughter of Jenico Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston and Georgina Jane Connelan, on 16 June 1906; they had 4 children: * Ninian Patrick Crichton-Stuart (31 October 1907 - 4 February 1910) * Ismay Catherine Crichton-Stuart (23 December 1909 - 1989); she married, firstly, John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury on 1 October 1930, but they divorced in 1936, having produced one son together. She married, secondly, Donald Walter Munro Ross on 30 August 1937, and had issue, one daughter with him.〔Darryl Lundy. ("Ismay Catherine Crichton-Stuart" ) ''The Peerage.com'' database. Retrieved 4 May 2008〕 * Claudia Miriam Joanna Crichton-Stuart (24 June 1913 - 19 June 1985)〔According to (some sources ), she was married in 1948 to one Peter Vigne and lived in South Africa. However, Lundy's database, based on Burke's Peerage, gives no such marriage for her.〕 * Major Michael Duncan David Crichton-Stuart (14 March 1915 - 1981); he married Barbara Symes, daughter of Sir George Stewart Symes, on 1 March 1941, and had issue one son and three daughters (the two elder being adopted). The son has one son and one daughter by his late wife, these two representing the heirs male of Lord Ninian.〔Darryl Lundy. ("Michael Duncan David Crichton-Stuart" ) ''The Peerage.com'' database. Retrieved 4 May 2008〕 After his death, his widow remarried on 30 April 1917 Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay (4 May 1894 - 11 March 1955), later a Scottish Unionist MP for Peebles and South Midlothian 1931-1945; he is better known today as one of the most prominent British fascists. Ramsay and his wife had four sons together. Mrs Ramsay died 16 February 1975 aged 92, and was survived by six of her eight children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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