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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]
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]
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.
Situated on the southern approach to the former royal burgh of Sanquhar in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland, it sits on the trail of the Southern Upland Way. The castle is a stronghold bounded on the west by the River Nith , to the north by a burn, and made strong by a deep ditch running the remainder of the boundary.
Corsock (Scottish Gaelic: Corsag) is a village in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is located 8 miles (13 km) north of Castle Douglas, and the same distance east of New Galloway, on the Urr Water. Corsock House is an 18th-century country house remodelled by David Bryce in 1853.
27 Abercromby Place, Edinburgh. He was born at Closeburn Castle on 15 May 1769, the son of Rev James Stuart Menteath and Catherine Maria Wheler, daughter of Rev Granville Wheler.
Burials in Dumfries and Galloway (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "People from Dumfries and Galloway" The following 150 pages are in this category, out of 150 total.
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