- SURNAME
Hutchison
- FORENAME
James Riley Holt (Jim)
- UNIT
S.O.E. Jedburgh Team Isaac
- RANK
T/Lieutenant Colonel
- NUMBER
40301
- AWARD
Distinguished Service Order,Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (Fr),Croix de Guerre (Fr)
- PLACE
France 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit General List
born 10.4.1893
son of Thomas Holt and Florence (nee Riley) Hutchison
educated Stanmore Park Preparatory School
educated Kelvinside Academy,Glasgow
educated Harrow School
joined family shipowning business (J.&P. Hutchison Ltd)
served in WW1 with Lanarkshire Yeomanry and Indian Cavalry
served in Gallipoli 1915
awarded Territorial Decoration (TD) 1928
Chairman,Ailsa Shipbuilding Co.
Chairman,Hutchison and Craft Ltd
Chairman,Grampian Holdings
insurance broker also
Director,Tayside Floorcloth Co. Ltd
Representative of Glasgow to Chamber of Shipping 1933-35
BEF 1939-40 (served France and North Africa)
Head of RF Section SOE 1942 - October 1943
Interallied Union Mission,France early 1944
Jedburgh Team Isaac 1944
alias John L. Hastings
codename Telemetre
Honorary Colonel,Lanarkshire Yeomanry 1940s
Conservative M.P.,Glasgow Central 1945-50
Financial Secretary and Under-Secretary of State,War Office 1951-October 1954
re-elected M.P. 1955-58
created 1st Baronet Hutchison of Rossie 26.1.1956
President,Associated British Chamber of Commerce 1960-62
President,Westminster Chamber of Commerce 1963
created Officer of the Venerable Order of St John 1972
married Dorothy Joan Surtees 1.3.1920 (divorced 1922) (2 children)
married Winefryde Eleanor Mary Craft 31.7.1928
autobiography "That Drug Danger"
died 24.2.1979
Glasgow Necropolis,Glasgow
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