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Walter Murray Guthrie, DL (3 June 1869 – 24 April 1911) was a merchant banker and British politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1899 to 1906. ==Biography== Walter Murray Guthrie was the third son of James Alexander Guthrie of Craigie, Governor of the Bank of England, and Ellinor Stirling. He was born in London in 1869 and educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.〔Obituary, ''The Times'', 25 Apr. 1911, p. 11〕 While at Cambridge, he worked on the literary paper Granta.〔Graham Chainey, ''A Literary History of Cambridge'', CUP Archive, 1995, p. 180.〕 In 1894, he married Olive Louisa Blanche Leslie, daughter of Sir John Leslie, first Baronet of Glaslough, county Monaghan (Ireland), and Lady Constance Wilhelmina Frances Dawson-Damer. They had six children, of whom four survived infancy: Patrick Stirling, Bridget Mary Idol, David Leslie, and Virginia Violet Margaret.〔Obituary, ''The Times'', 25 Apr. 1911, p. 11〕 He became a partner of Chalmers, Guthrie & Co., merchant bankers and a director of the London Joint Stock Bank and Commercial Union Assurance Co.〔Youssef Cassis, ''City Bankers, 1890–1914'', Cambridge University Press, 2009, p. 160.〕 In 1897, he inherited a castle on the Isle of Mull from an uncle. Originally known as Duart House, it was later called Torosay Castle. Guthrie made improvements and embellished the gardens with statues bought from an abandoned villa in Italy.〔James Truscott, ''Private Gardens of Scotland'', Harmony Books, 1988, p. 22〕 Guthrie was elected to the Commons in the Bow and Bromley by-election, 1899, defeating the Liberal candidate H. Spender by 2,123 votes and succeeding the Conservative MP Lionel Holland in the Bow and Bromley constituency. He left Parliament in the 1906 general election and was succeeded by the Liberal Stopford Brooke. In 1901, he travelled to South Africa during the Boer War, and contributed to the Report of the Royal Commission on South African Hospitals. 〔 Ann Crichton-Harris, ''Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia'', BRILL, 209, p. 72.〕 Guthrie was a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Argyll from June 1901. He died at his home in Mull in 1911 aged 41. A memorial was erected to him in the gardens of Torosay Castle.〔Terry Marsh, ''The Isle of Mull'', Cicerone Press, 2011, p. 129.〕 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「Walter Guthrie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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