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Stewart Graham Menzies was born in England in 1890 into a wealthy family as the second son of John Graham Menzies and Susannah West Wilson, daughter of ship-owner Arthur Wilson of Tranby Croft. [3] His grandfather, Graham Menzies, was a whisky distiller who helped establish a cartel and made huge profits.
Robert Stewart Menzies (1856 – 25 January 1889) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1889. Menzies was the son of Graham Menzies (died 1880), an Edinburgh distiller of Hallyburton, Cupar Angus , [ 1 ] and his wife Beatrice (d.1899), daughter of William Dudgeon, merchant of Leith , Edinburgh.
One tradition that was not maintained was the selection of the Chief from the ranks of the Royal Navy. Although Cumming and his successor Hugh Sinclair both had long Navy careers, [6] in 1939 Army veteran Stewart Menzies was appointed over naval officer (and Churchill's preferred candidate) Gerard Muirhead-Gould. [7]
Stewart Menzies (1890–1968), British Army major general This page was last edited on 18 May 2024, at 03:29 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Another Sir Robert Menzies, who was the eighth chief, built Weem Castle, near the current Castle Menzies, in about 1488. [7] The castle was plundered in 1502 by Stewart of Garth in a dispute over the lands of Fothergill. [7] Janet Menzies had married a Stewart about a century earlier, and Garth claimed the lands as part of her tocher, or dowry. [7]
In 1888 they had their first son Keith Graham Menzies, then Stewart Graham Menzies in 1890 and their third son Ian Graham Menzies in 1895. [11] A photo taken in about 1925 shows the two eldest boys and Jack Menzies with the Wilsons. By 1903 Jack had made some disastrous financial investments, principally in a diamond mine in South Africa.
Sir Stewart Menzies (1890–1968) was Chief of MI6 during and after the Second World War, and on whom Ian Fleming based "M" of James Bond fame. In the 1920s he acquired Bridges Court , an 18th-century Grade II-listed Cotswold stone farmhouse, set in 30 acres adjoining the Badminton Estate.
Stewarts & Lloyds was a steel tube manufacturer with its headquarters in Glasgow at 41 Oswald Street. The company was created in 1903 by the amalgamation of two of the largest iron and steel makers in Britain: A. & J. Stewart & Menzies, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland; and Lloyd & Lloyd, Birmingham, England.