Moir Tod Stormonth Darling, Lord Stormonth-Darling FRSE DL LLD (3 November 1844 – 2 June 1912) was a Scottish Conservative Party [1] politician and judge. [2] [3]
Stormonth-Darling was born on 3 November 1844, the son of Elizabeth Moir Tod, daughter James Tod of, Deanstoun, and James Stormonth Darling of Lednathie WS (1830-1881). The family lived at 40 Drummond Place in Edinburgh's New Town. [4]
He was educated at Kelso Grammar School then studied law at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MA. [2]
In November 1888, he was elected in an unopposed by-election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities. [1] from 1888 appointed as Solicitor General for Scotland. He resigned the seat in 1890, when he was appointed to judiciary as a Lord of Session, [1] an office which he held until 1908 [5]
In 1897 he was President of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club and gave the Toast to Sir Walter at the club's annual dinner.[ citation needed] In 1900 he featured in a set of Copes cigarette cards of well known golfers. The card, numbered 49, depicts him standing in a bunker and is entitled "Duffers Yet".[ citation needed]
He was a Director of both Scottish Provident and the Bank of Scotland, a member of the Court of the University of Edinburgh, a Railway Commissioner for Scotland and (like his father) a member of the Royal Company of Archers. He wrote books on golf and also collected ballads. [6]
In later years he lived at Balvarran in Perthshire and 10 Great Stuart Street, an impressive Georgian townhouse on the Moray Estate in Edinburgh's West End. [7]
He died at home on 2 June 1912 aged 67.
He was married to Ethel Hay Young, daughter of Major William Baird Young (a relation of Brigham Young), in 1892. [3]
His parents are buried together in the small graveyard at Buccleuch Parish Church.
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