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Walter John Macdonald Ross ,
CB
OBE
MC
TD (1914–1982)
[1]
[2]
[3] was a British Army officer who served as
Lord Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright from 1977 to 1982.
[4]
Personal life
Ross was son of Major Robert Ross (1877–1935),
deputy assistant provost marshal for the West Scotland area
[5]
[6] and owner of the
Ledgowan estate
[7]
[8] at
Achnasheen,
Ross-shire.
[9] He was educated at
Loretto School, where he was a Cadet Under-Officer in the
Officers' Training Corps.
[10]
Ross married Josephine May Cross, and had two sons and a daughter; the elder, Lt-Col
Malcolm Ross (1943–2019), was a member of the
Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom and, from 2006, of the household of
Charles, Prince of Wales, and the younger,
Robert Ross, was Keeper of the Records of the Duchy of Cornwall until retiring in 2013.
[11] The family lived at Netherhall,
Balmaghie,
Castle Douglas,
Kirkcudbrightshire (now in the
Dumfries and Galloway) administrative area.
[12]
Military career and honours
Ross was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the
80th (Lowland) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery of the
Territorial Army in 1935.
[13] He reached the rank of Territorial Army
staff Colonel, formerly of the 5th
King's Own Scottish Borderers; he held the
Territorial Decoration, was awarded the
Military Cross in 1946 whilst a Major in the
Royal Artillery,
[14] and was appointed
OBE in the
1955 New Year Honours,
[15] and
CB in the
1958 Birthday Honours.
[16]
From 1977 to 1982, Ross served as
Lord Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright; he was also a
Justice of the peace.
[17]
[18]
Notes
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^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Kelly's Directories, 1973, p. 2954
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^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th ed., 2003, vol. 3, p. 3401
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^
National Archives
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^
Sainty, J. C.
"Lieutenants and Lord-Lieutenants of Counties (Scotland) 1794-". Retrieved 6 December 2008. [
dead link]
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^ Per the West of Scotland Wikipedia redirect page: "Informally, an area comprising Argyll, Ayrshire, Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire, and Renfrewshire"
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^ The Loretto Register, 1825 to 1948, T. & A. Constable, 1949, p. 99
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^ The Deer and Deer Forests of Scotland, Alexander Inkson McConnochie, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1923, p. 55
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^ The Book of the Red Deer, John Ross, 2017
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^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Kelly's Directories, 1973, p. 2954
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^
"Page 7955 | Issue 34230, 10 December 1935 | London Gazette | The Gazette". Archived from
the original on 30 October 2019.
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^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th ed., 2003, vol. 3, p. 3401
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^ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2011, Debrett's Ltd, p. 49
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^
"Page 7955 | Issue 34230, 10 December 1935 | London Gazette | The Gazette". Archived from
the original on 30 October 2019.
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^
"Page 636 | Supplement 37442, 22 January 1946 | London Gazette | the Gazette" (PDF).
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^
"Recommendation for Award for Ross, Walter John MacDonald Rank: Lieutenant".
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^
"Recommendation for Award for Ross, Walter John Macdonald Rank: Colonel".
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^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th ed., 2003, vol. 3, p. 3401
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^ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2011, Debrett's Ltd, p. 49