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He was Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary from 1984 to 1989, [3] and President of ACPO from 1988 to 1989. He joined Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland in 1989 [4] and four years later became its head. Boyd died on 9 April 2024, at the age of 90. [5]
Police were called to a crash between a BMW 1 series and an articulated lorry late on Tuesday night.
In 1996 he became Lord Lieutenant of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway Region, [5] and held this post until succeeded by Malcolm Ross in March 2006. [ 6 ] Personal life and death
Thompson was born on 11 September 1928 in The Glenkens, Galloway, Scotland. [1] In the 1950s he went to Rome and studied at the Pontifical Scots College. [1] After the death of his father, he returned to Scotland without completing his studies, then spent seven years working for the Forestry Commission. [1]
After McDiarmid's death in 1852, the editorship was taken over by his son, William R. M’Diarmid. [4] In 1884, the Courier was purchased by local conservatives and merged with the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Herald and Register in order to form the Dumfries and Galloway Courier and Herald. In 1939, it ceased publication owing to wartime paper ...
The term Dumfries and Galloway has been used since at least the 19th century – by 1911 the three counties had a united sheriffdom under that name. Dumfries and Galloway covers the majority of the western area of the Southern Uplands, [3] it also hosts Scotland's most Southerly point, at the Mull of Galloway [4] in the west of the region.
He became a member of the Privy Council in 1995, and following his retirement as an MP, was made a life peer as Baron Monro of Langholm, of Westerkirk in Dumfries and Galloway on 6 November 1997. [4] The number of Conservative MPs from Scotland declined from 24 when he was first elected an MP in 1964 to nil after the 1997 general election.
for Galloway and West Dumfries Galloway and Upper Nithsdale (2003–2011) In office 1 May 2003 – 24 March 2016: Preceded by: Alasdair Morgan: Succeeded by: Finlay Carson: Member of the Scottish Parliament for South of Scotland (1 of 7 Regional MSPs) In office 6 May 1999 – 1 May 2003