Walter Guthrie

June 3, 1869 (age 41)

London

While at Cambridge, he worked on the literary paper Granta. They had six children, of whom four survived infancy: Patrick Stirling, Bridget Mary Idol, David Leslie, and Virginia Violet Margaret. 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. 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 Member of Parliament 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. 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.

Walter Guthrie

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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.

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While at Cambridge, he worked on the literary paper Granta. They had six children, of whom four survived infancy: Patrick Stirling, Bridget Mary Idol, David Leslie, and Virginia Violet Margaret. 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. 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 Member of Parliament 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.

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.

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27th United Kingdom Parliament.

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He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) from 1899 to 1906.

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