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Biography Details

Reference No.:	NM001958
Surname:	MCDONALD
Forename(s):	JAMES RAMSAY
Maiden Name:
Occupation:	PRIME MINISTER
Date of Birth:	12 OCT 1866
Place of Birth:	1 GREGORY PLACE LOSSIEMOUTH
Father's Name:	JOHN MACDONALD PLOUGHMAN SWEETHILLOCK
Mother's Name:	ANNE RAMSAY HOUSEKEEPER( See NM149918)
Biography:	CHRISTENED JAMES MACDONALD RAMSAY LEADER OF THE LABOUR PARTY

Marriage Details

Spouse's Name:	MARGARET ETHEL GLADSTONE
Date of Marriage:	23 NOV 1896
Place of Marriage:	ST MARY ABBOTT'S KENSINGTON LONDON
Married by:	REV A L LILLEY
Marriage Narrative:	PARENTS OF ISHBEL & MALCOLM & SHEILA & DAVID & ALISTAIR & JOAN MACDONALD

Death Details

Date of Death:	09 NOV 1937
Age:	71
Headstone Ref:	S126a
Place of Death:	AT SEA ON BOARD THE LINER "REINA DEL PACIFICO"
Parish Register:
Death Narrative:	CREMATED & HIS ASHES INTERRED IN SPYNIE CHURCHYARD

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper	Description	Date	Page/Column
COURANT	marriage	24/11/1896	5/5
BA	appointment as independent Labour candidate for Leicester	17/05/1899	4/5
COURANT	election as member of London County Council & biography	26/11/1901	4/5
NS	election to London County Council	30/11/1901	8/3
COURANT	biography	22/12/1903	4/5
NS	opening of Lossiemouth Public Library	09/01/1904	3/4
NS	history of early political career	27/01/1906	7/4
FG	£100 donation as a trust fund with the interest to be distributed at Christmas among the poorer parishioners of Drainie	25/06/1913	2/5
BA	petition re war	28/08/1915	6/4
FG	call by members of Moray Golf Club for name to be struck from membership	01/09/1915	3/3
FG	call by members of Moray Golf Club for name to be struck from membership	22/09/1915	3/3
BA	suspension from membership of Moray Golf Club	07/09/1916	3/5
COURANT	letter to secretary of Moray Golf Club in response to suspension from club	06/10/1916	3/2
BA	address to meeting in Aberdeen	08/01/1920	2/5
BA	adoption as Parliamentary candidate for Aberavon, Glamorganshire	29/01/1920	5/3
BA	visit to Lossiemouth	12/08/1920	5/6
BA	speech to ILP meeting in Elgin	02/09/1920	7/1
BA	defeat at Woolwich by Robert Gee	10/03/1921	6/4
BA	speech to meeting in Buckie	08/09/1921	3/1
BA	comments about north east fishermen and the latest spiritual revival	19/01/1922	7/6
BA	election as leader of Labour Party	23/11/1922	3/4
COURANT	election as leader of Labour Party	24/11/1922	5/5
BA	speech to railwaymen in Elgin	06/09/1923	6/6
BA	speech at a dinner party in London	27/09/1923	5/6
BA	attendance at British Legion concert in Buckie	03/01/1924	7/5-6
COURANT	appointment as prime minister	25/01/1924	5/1-3
BA	celebrations in Lossiemouth	31/01/1924	5/5
BA	honorary membership of Spey Bay Golf Club	27/03/1924	5/3
BA	visit to Spey Bay & Buckie	12/06/1924	5/6
BA	visit to Lossiemouth	12/06/1924	7/1-2
FG	visit to Moray	12/06/1924	3/6-7
COURANT	visit to Moray	13/06/1924	5/1-2
BA	departure from Lossiemouth & photograph	19/06/1924	7/3-5
BA	holiday in Lossiemouth	21/08/1924	5/3`
BA	picnic with Lossiemouth war veterans	28/08/1924	4/6-5/1
BA	dinner with magistrates in Lossiemouth	04/09/1924	5/5
FG	visit to Lossiemouth	04/09/1924	3/4
COURANT	visit to Elgin	19/09/1924	5/3
COURANT	visit to Lossiemouth	21/05/1926	5/5
COURANT	visit to Lossiemouth	13/08/1926	5/2
COURANT	photographs & description of award of freedom of the burgh of Elgin	30/08/1929	6
COURANT	speech at dinner of London Morayshire Club & photograph	07/03/1930	6/2-7
COURANT	visit to Lossiemouth	18/04/1930	4/5
COURANT	visit to Hopeman	20/06/1930	6/3-4
COURANT	visit to Moray	06/11/1931	4/4-6
COURANT	visit to Moray	06/11/1931	5/1-7
COURANT	visit to Lossiemouth	20/05/1932	5/1
COURANT	visit to Lossiemouth	27/05/1932	5/2-4
COURANT	visit to Lossiemouth	12/08/1932	5/7
COURANT	visit to Elgin	30/12/1932	7/4
COURANT	visit to 57th Educational Congress of the Institute of Scotland in Elgin	29/12/1933	5/2-5
COURANT	election as honorary president of Hopeman Golf Club	31/03/1934	5/3
COURANT	visit to Lossiemouth	18/05/1934	4/2
COURANT	visit to Elgin	06/07/1934	5/4
COURANT	visit to Elgin	28/12/1934	5/6-7
COURANT	obituary	12/11/1937	5/1-4
COURANT	obituary	19/11/1937	5/4
COURANT	obituary	26/11/1937	5/1
COURANT	obituary	03/12/1937	6/3-5
COURANT	photograph	03/12/1937	-
COURANT	funeral	03/12/1937	6/2-4
COURANT	obituary	10/12/1937	3/1
COURANT	obituary	10/12/1937	8/1
FG	prediction about	12/06/1940	2/5
NS	memorial plaque at 1 Gregory Place, Lossiemouth	21/07/1951	8/4-6
NS	biography & photographs	08/10/1966	6/5-7
FG	biography & photograph	12/10/1966	5/3-5
NS	tribute	15/10/1966	6/4
NS	tributes & creation of memorial garden at Prospect Terrace, Lossiemouth	15/10/1966	7/2-3
FG	centenary celebrations & photograph	19/10/1966	5/3-6
NS	opening of memorial garden at Prospect Terrace, Lossiemouth	22/10/1966	7/6
FG	opening ceremony of Lossiemouth memorial	2/11/1966	5/3-6
FG	return of freedom casket by Mrs. Ishbel Peterkin to Elgin Town Council	6/12/1967	4/4
NS	son's obituary	17/01/1981	2/4-5
NS	donation of contents of study to Lossiemouth Fisheries & Community Museum	06/11/1982	16/3-7
PJ	golf snobs & dirty politics	01/04/1992	-
NS	reminiscences by Meta Bruce & photograph	17/10/1997	11/1-8
BH	photograph of visit to Keith sheepdog trials	04/08/2000	2/5-7
BH	photograph of visit to Keith sheepdog trials	04/08/2000	2/5-7
NS	photograph of 1933 painting of MacDonald by Sir John Lavery	09/03/2001	13/1-6

Miscellaneous Articles

Date	Description
Biographies
1924	"The man of tomorrow J Ramsay MacDonald" by Iconoclast - LB MCD
c. 1924	"The Right Honourable James Ramsay MacDonald MP" by Herbert Tracey - LB MCD
1925	"J Ramsay MacDonald (1923-1925)" by Iconoclast - LB MCD
1926	"Morayshire men in politics" by James Hunter Robertson contained in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p31 - L 079
c. 1928	"James Ramsay MacDonald Labour's man of destiny" by H Hessell Tiltman - LB MCD
1929	"A man of Moray's year" by W Sellar Hay contained in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p1 - L 079
1929	"J Ramsay MacDonald" by Mary Agnes Hamilton - LB MCD
c. 1931	biography in "The Scottish Socialists a gallery of contemporary portraits" - LB MCD
c. 1935	biography in "Reynolds extra no. 2" - LMisc425
1936	"At home and abroad essays by the Right Honourable J Ramsay MacDonald" - 910.4 (L MCD)
1938	"The tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald" by L Macneill Weir - LB MCD
1939	"The life of James Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1919)" by Lord Elton - LB MCD
1952	"J Ramsay MacDonald in thought and action" by Benjamin Sacks - LB MCD
1966	"The tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald" by James Drawbell from "Scots magazine" Nov 1966 p103-111 - LMisc425
1966	"Man of destiny who lved his native heath" in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p17 - L 079
1968	biography extracted from "Britain's prime ministers" by E R Pike - LMisc425
1972	"Ramsay MacDonald's political writings" edited by Bernard Barker - 320.531 (L MCD)
1972	"Titans & others" by Malcolm MacDonald - L BC
1977	extract from "British prime ministers in the twentieth century" edited by John P Mackintosh - LMisc425
1977	"Ramsay MacDonald" by David Marquand - LB MCD
1977	extract from "A Prime minister on prime ministers" by Harold Wilson - LMisc425
1978	"Prime ministers of Britain" p106-110 by Eileen Hellicar - LMisc425
1985	biography in "A short history of the Labour Party" by Henry Pelling - R 324.24107
1987	"J Ramsay MacDonald" by Austen Morgan - LB MCD
Miscellaneous
1883	award of bursary in "Annual report of the London Morayshire Club" p7 - L 367
1929	photograph of MacDonald's first employer William Munro in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p16 - L 079
1929	menu & toast list for complimentary dinner at Marine Hotel, Lossiemouth - LMisc425
1937	poem by Margaret Winefride Simpson in "Moray life" pii - L 079
1937	funeral service - LMisc425
1937	poem "En voyage" by Margaret Winefride Simpson contained in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p49 - L 079
1951	photograph of memorial plaque at 1 Gregory Place, Lossiemouth, in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p27 - L 079
1966	plans of memorial shelter at Prospect Terrace, Lossiemouth - ZCMn DE3/966/27
1966	plans of memorial shelter at Prospect Terrace, Lossiemouth - ZBLo D3/966/22
1966	photographs of ceremony in Lossiemouth to commemorate the 100th anniversary of MacDonald's birth in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p3 - L 079
1988	details of association with Moray Golf Club in "The Moray Golf Club at Lossiemouth 1889-1989" by John McConachie - L 796.352
1997	video of Moray Society lecture - LB MCD
1998	photographs of bust of MacDonald - LMisc425
Photographs & Illustrations
1910	photographs of Ramsay MacDonald in Forty Wonderful Years A pictorial record of our times 1898-1938 1910 p12 and back cover LMisc425
c.1920	Portraits - Macdonald (Oversize)
c. 1920	Portraits - MacDonald - n1025/45
c. 1924	group photograph at the Hillocks, Lossiemouth, with General Herzog - n1025/46 (Portraits - MacDonald)
1924	"Northern Scot Christmas number" p1 - L 079
1924	arrival at Lossiemouth Station - n529/39 (Portraits - MacDonald)
1924	portrait - n822/73A (Portraits - MacDonald)
1924	MacDonald at Lossiemouth & Spey Bay in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p6 - L 079
1925	presentation of prizes at Spey Bay golf Club in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p31 - L 079
1927	MacDonald at picnic with his Elgin supporters in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p32 - L 079
1927	open-air meal at the Hillocks, Lossiemouth, in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p32 - L 079
1929	visit to Lossiemouth on re-election as prime minister in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p13 - L 079
1929	presentation of prizes at Spey Bay golf tournament in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p14 - L 079
1929	meeting with General Dawes in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p14-15 - L 079
1929	photographs of ceremony of granting of freedom of Elgin to MacDonald in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p5 - L 079
1929	photograph of visit by US Ambassador Genral Dawes (Portraits - Forres) - n 110/9
c. 1930	photographs - LMisc1579
c. 1930	photograph with Malcolm MacDonald - n627/52A (Portraits - MacDonald)
c. 1930	group photograph - n1/5 (Portraits - MacDonald)
c. 1931	photograph with Ishbel and Sheila MacDonald at sheep dog trials at Keith - n822/71A (Portraits - MacDonald)
1931	speech at Elgin LMS railway station in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p1 - L 079
1931	"Northern Scot Christmas number" p16 - L 079
1932	"Northern Scot Christmas number" p18 - L 079
1933	MacDonald at Gordon Castle gathering in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p41 - L 079
1933	photograph of Sir John Lavery painting MacDonald in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p36 - L 079
1937	"Moray life" pii - L 079
1937	MacDonald with his granddaughter in "Northern Scot Christmas number" p15 - L 079
1937	photograph playing golf in "Moray life" p61 - L 079
1937	return of coffin to England - n822/72A, 74A, 75A,76A (Portraits-MacDonald)
1988	"A singular marriage A Labour love story in letters and diaries Ramsay and Margaret MacDonald" edited by Jane Cox - LB MCD
Works By
1904	"Women in the printing trades: a sociological study" - 331.4 (L MCD)
1905	"Socialism and society" - 335 (L MCD)
1911	"The Socialist movement" - 320.531 (L MCD)
1912	"Syndicalism a critical examination" - 335.82 (L MCD)
1917	"National defence a study in militarism" - 335.45 (L MCD)
1919	"Parliament and revolution" - L328.4107
1920	"A policy for the Labour Party" - 329.941 (L MCD)
1921	"Socialism: critical and constructive" - 335 (L MCD)
1924	"The social unrest its cause and solution" 331 (L MCD)
1929	"Wanderings and excursions" - 910.4 (L MCD)
1930	"American speeches" - 320 (L MCD)
1932	"The government and the opposition" extracted from "The news-letter the national labour fortnightly" 17 Sep 1932