James Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn

Captain The Right Honourable

The Viscount Stuart of Findhorn

Photograph of Stuart by Walter Stoneman, taken August 1943.

Secretary of State for Scotland

In office
30 October 1951 – 9 January 1957

Prime Minister

Winston Churchill
Sir Anthony Eden

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Opposition Chief Whip of the House of Commons

In office
26 July 1945 – 4 July 1948

Deputy

Patrick Buchan-Hepburn

Leader

Winston Churchill

Preceded by

William Whiteley

Succeeded by

Patrick Buchan-Hepburn

Chief Whip of the House of Commons
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury

In office
14 January 1941 – 26 July 1945

Serving with Charles Edwards and William Whiteley

Prime Minister

Winston Churchill

Deputy

Thomas Dugdale
William Whiteley
John McEwen
William John
Leslie Pym
James Edmondson

Preceded by

Charles Edwards

Succeeded by

William Whiteley

Government Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Commons

In office
27 May 1937 – 14 January 1941

Serving with William Whiteley (1940–1941)

Prime Minister

Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Thomas Dugdale
William Whiteley

Lord Commissioner of the Treasury

In office
1 May 1935 – 14 January 1941

Prime Minister

Ramsay MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Parliamentary offices


Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 20 November 1959 – 20 February 1971 Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by	Peerage created
Succeeded by	The 2nd Viscount Stuart of Findhorn
Member of Parliament for Moray and Nairn
In office 6 December 1923 – 8 October 1959
Preceded by	Thomas Maule Guthrie
Succeeded by	Gordon Campbell

Personal details

Born

James Gray Stuart

9 February 1897
Edinburgh, Scotland

Died

20 February 1971 (aged 74)
Salisbury, England

Nationality

British

Political party

Spouse

Lady Rachel Cavendish

(m. 1923)

Children

3

James Gray Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn, CH, MVO, MC*, PC (9 February 1897 – 20 February 1971) was a British Unionist politician. He was joint-Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in Winston Churchill's war-time coalition government and later served as Secretary of State for Scotland under Churchill and then Sir Anthony Eden from 1951 to 1957. In 1959 he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Stuart of Findhorn.