Malcolm Barclay-Harvey

Who was Malcolm Barclay-Harvey?

Sir Charles Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, KCMG was a British politician and Governor of South Australia from 12 August 1939 until 26 April 1944.

The only child of James Charles Barclay-Harvey, of Dinnet House, Aberdeenshire, he was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford, and served in the 7th Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders from 1909–1915, with the Home Staff from 1915–1916, with the Ministry of Munitions in London from 1916–1918 and in Paris from 1918-1919.

Barclay-Harvey was adopted as prospective Unionist candidate for East Aberdeenshire in 1914 and was Member of Parliament for Kincardine and Aberdeenshire West from 1923 to 1929 and from 1931 to1939. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir John Gilmour from 1924 to 1929 and to Sir Godfrey Collins from 1932 to 1936, and was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours, 1936, for "political and public services".

He was married firstly, in 1912, to Margaret Joan, daughter of Henry de la Poer Beresford Heywood, of Wrentnall House, Shrewsbury, by whom he had a daughter, and secondly to a widow, Lady Muriel Felicia Vere Liddell-Grainger, daughter of the 12th Earl of Lindsey, at Westminster in 1938.