Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, of Mount Royal

Mount Royal, Quebec

Mount Royal is a town located on the northwest side of Mount Royal, north of downtown Montreal, on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The town is completely surrounded by Montreal. The population was 18,933 at the 2006 census...

 in the Province of Quebec

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 and Dominion of Canada

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 and of Glencoe in the County of Argyll, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1900 for the Scottish

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-born Canadian financier and politician Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

Sir Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, GCMG, GCVO, PC, DL was a Scottish-born Canadian fur trader, financier, railroad baron and politician.-Early life:...

, with remainder in default of male issue to his only daughter Margaret Charlotte. Smith had already been created Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, of Glencoe in the County of Argyll and of Mount Royal in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, in 1897, with remainder to the issue male of his body. This title was also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

On his death in 1914 the barony of 1897 became extinct while he was succeeded according to the special remainder in the barony of 1900 by his daughter. She was the wife of Robert Jared Bliss Howard, a surgeon. Their eldest son, the third Baron, represented North Cumberland

North Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)

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 in the British House of Commons

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 as a Unionist

Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

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 from 1922 to 1926 and served in the National Government

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 as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard

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 from 1931 to 1934 and as Under-Secretary of State for War

Under-Secretary of State for War

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 from 1934 to 1939. the title is held by the latter's son, the fourth Baron, who succeeded in 1959. He served under Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

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 as a Minister of State

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 at the Ministry of Defence

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 from 1979 to 1981.

Barons Strathcona and Mount Royal, First creation (1897)

• Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
  Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
  Sir Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, GCMG, GCVO, PC, DL was a Scottish-born Canadian fur trader, financier, railroad baron and politician.-Early life:...
  
   (1820–1914)

Barons Strathcona and Mount Royal, Second creation (1900)

• Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
  Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
  Sir Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, GCMG, GCVO, PC, DL was a Scottish-born Canadian fur trader, financier, railroad baron and politician.-Early life:...
  
   (1820–1914)
• Margaret Charlotte Howard, 2nd Baroness Strathcona and Mount Royal (1854–1926)
• Donald Stirling Palmer Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
  Donald Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
  Donald Stirling Palmer Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom....
  
   (1891–1959)
• (Donald) Euan Palmer Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
  Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
  Donald Euan Palmer Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal , is a British Conservative politician.Howard is the eldest son of Donald Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, and his wife the Hon. Diana Evelyn, daughter of Gerald Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst...
  
   (b. 1923)

The heir apparent

Heir apparent

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is the present holder's son Hon. (Donald) Alexander Smith Howard (b. 1961)