Sir Ian Zachary Malcolm, 17th Laird of Poltalloch, Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George, was a Conservative Member of Parliament and Chieftain of the Clan Malcolm/MacCallum.
Background
Malcolm was born in 1868, the son of Colonel Edward Donald Malcolm, 16th of Poltalloch (1837-1930). His father´s elder brother was Conservative politician John Wingfield Malcolm, Baron Malcolm of Poltalloch (1833-1902), who died childless and left the Malcolm estate to his brother Edward, from whom it came to Sir Ian on his father´s death in 1930.
Education
He was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford.
Career
Malcolm served as a Justice of the Peace (Argyll, 1898) and as Member of Parliament for Stowmarket 1895-1906, Croydon 1910-1918, then Croydon South 1918 until 1919. Malcolm held many diplomatic and political appointments. He travelled extensively in British India in 1901-1902, visiting the North-West Frontier Province and Rajputana, and accompanying Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India on his tour through Burma in late 1901.
He was a British Red Cross Officer during the First World War in France, Switzerland, Russia and the United States. Breaking all tradition, the bride was given away by her mother.
Jeanne and Sir Ian lived alternately in a house in Belgravia, London, or at the Malcolm’s family seat at Poltalloch in Scotland.
Their first child, George Ian, was born ten months after the wedding. Victor (the first husband of the actress Ann Todd) and Angus followed in the next five years, then a decade later, Helen Mary. Mary later became one of the first two female announcers on the British Broadcasting Corporation Television Service (now British Broadcasting Corporation One) from 1948 to 1956, during which time she became a household name in the United Kingdom. She died on 13 October 2010 at the age of 92.
Membership
26th United Kingdom Parliament. 27th United Kingdom Parliament. 30th United Kingdom Parliament.
31st United Kingdom Parliament.