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Major Sir David Henry Butter MC KCVO (18 March 1920 – 29 May 2010) was a Scottish soldier, courtier, and public official. He was Lord Lieutenant of Perth and Kinross from 1975-95.[1]
Butter was born at Pitlochry, Perthshire, the son of Royal Air Force Col. Charles Adrian James Butter OBE DL and his American-born wife, Agnes Marguerite "Madge" Clark. She was the daughter of Scottish-born John William Clark of Newark, New Jersey, president of the Clark Thread Company of Newark., brother of George Aitken Clark[2] William Clark was his half-uncle. Thomas Kennedy Laidlaw
David Henry Butter was a member of an ancient Scottish family that had owned land in Perthshire around Faskally near Pitlochry since the 12th century.[3]
He was educated at Eton and Worcester College, Oxford.[2]
He left the Army in 1948 with the rank of major and embarked on a life of public service in Scotland. He was a county councillor for Perth from 1955 to 1977 and Vice-Lieutenant for the county from 1960 to 1961, Her Majesty’s Lieutenant from 1971 to 1975 and finally Lord Lieutenant for Perth and Kinross from 1975 to 1995. He was appointed KCVO in 1991.
Lord Lieutenant of Perthshire
Highland Division of the Territorial Army – of which Major Butter was president from 1979-84
Marriage and family
[edit]1946 Myra Alice Wernher (1925-2022), Sir Harold Wernher (1893-1973) and Countess Anastasia "Zia" de Torby (1892-1977), the daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (1861-1929) and Countess Sophie Nikolaievna of Merenberg (1868-1927). great-great-granddaughter of the Russian poet and playwright Aleksandr Pushkin. was a lifelong friend of the Queen, Mrs. Butter was a member of Princess Elizabeth's girl guide troop at Buckingham Palace a cousin of Prince Philip [4]
They had one son and four daughters.
- Sandra Elizabeth Zia (born 1948), goddaughter of Queen Elizabeth;[5] married William D. Morrison, son of Maxey Neal Morrison
- Marilyn Davina (b.1950; married James Ramsay, 17th Earl of Dalhousie) Georgina Butter (b.1956; married Count Peter Pejačević de Veröcze)
- Rohays Georgina Galitzine (1952–2023),[6] married Prince Alexander Peter Galitzine, son of Prince George Galitzine;
- Georgina Marguerite (born 1956), married Peter Pejacsevich, son of Count Mark Pejacsevich
- Charles Adrian James (born 1960), married 2006 Agnieszka Szeluki
He died at Cluniemore House, Pitlochry.
References
[edit]- ^ "Major Sir David Butter". The Times. 16 June 2010. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ^ a b Burke, Sir Bernard (1921). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain. Burke Publishing Company. p. 255. Retrieved 25 November 2024. Cite error: The named reference "burke" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ "Obituary: Major Sir David Butter KCVO MC". The Scotsman. 15 June 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ^ "Obituary: Lady Butter, lifelong friend of the Queen and a descendant of the Russian poet, Pushkin". The Herald. 22 August 2022. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ^ "Second Daughter for Mrs. Butter". Leicester Evening Mail. 23 March 1950. p. 10. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ^ "Announcements Galitzine". The Telegraph Announcements. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
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