) Born in 1907, the son of
James Graham, 6th Duke and Lady Mary Louise, only daughter of
William Douglas Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton. His cousin was Colonel
Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel, a prominent Highland soldier and Chief of
Clan Cameron. and took up a position with
A.E. & I., the South African subsidiary of
ICI. While he was on holiday in England in 1939, the
Second World War with
Germany was declared. He signed up with the Admiral Commanding Reserves and was appointed Lieutenant in the
Royal Naval Reserve. He joined as part of
Lord Louis Mountbatten's flotilla in the
North Sea and the evacuations of Crete and Greece following the
German invasion of Greece. On 20 January 1954 he inherited his father's titles and became the 7th
Duke of Montrose, taking his seat in the House of Lords on 25 June 1957. He took hunting trips in
Kenya, where he met his second wife, Susan Semple. The family lived on Derry Farm at Nyabira outside
Salisbury, where the crops included maize and tobacco. A pedigree
Brahman cattle stud was established after importing bloodstock from
Texas. He was a member of the
Dominion Party of Rhodesia. He was a founder of the
Rhodesian Front, which he helped fund. and later as Minister of Defence and of Foreign Affairs. Although, in an article published in
Illustrated Life Rhodesia in the mid-1970s, Montrose indicated that he saw his family remaining in
Rhodesia for future generations, he and his family moved to
Natal,
South Africa in 1979 and then to
Kinross, Scotland, where he spent his final days. ==Family==