Moir Tod Stormonth Darling, Lord Stormonth-Darling

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]

Lord Stormonth Darling

Life
Stormonth-Darling's house at 10 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh

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). 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[4]

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. 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".

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.[5]

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.[6]

He died at home on 2 June 1912 aged 67.

Family

He was married to Ethel Hay Young, daughter of Major William Baird Young (a relation of Brigham Young), in 1892.[3]

References
  1. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 571. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
  2. "Stormonth-Darling, Hon. Lord, (Moir Tod Stormonth-Darling) (3 Nov. 1844–2 June 1912)", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u191326, retrieved 15 May 2019
  3. https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. Seekers of Truth: The Scottish Founders of Modern Public Accountancy, by Thomas Alexander Lee
  6. Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1911-12
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
John Macdonald		 Member of Parliament for Edinburgh & St Andrews Universities
1888–1890		 Succeeded by
Charles Pearson
Legal offices
Preceded by
James Robertson		 Solicitor General for Scotland
1888–1890		 Succeeded by
Sir Charles Pearson


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