John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale

John Granville Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, TD, DL (16 December 1906 – 25 May 1996) was a British landowner and Conservative Party politician.

[3] In 1942 he was elected Member of Parliament for Salisbury,[4] a seat he held until 1965,[5] and served as Chairman of the 1922 Committee between 1955 and 1964.

[6] On 1 January 1965 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Margadale, of Islay in the County of Argyll,[7] in recognition of his "political and public services".

[9] He was the last commoner to be raised to the hereditary peerage until Margaret Thatcher's brief revival of the practice in 1983, and the last under a Labour government.

Morrison began owning and breeding horses in 1952, and established the Fonthill Stud in 19th-century stables on his estate,[10] which has produced winners of several classic races.