our Scottish Nationality". Later in his career he served as Minister of Shipping during the early months of British involvement in the Second World War but died in office of a heart attack in London on 30 March 1940, Other appointments Gilmour was Master of the Fife Fox Hounds, 1902–1906, and a Member of Fife County Council 1901–1910. He was Rector of the University of Edinburgh, 1926–1929, and was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Glasgow in 1925, the University of Edinburgh in 1927, and the University of St Andrews in 1929. He was a Brigadier with the Royal Company of Archers. He was made Vice-Lieutenant for the County of Fife on 27 March 1936. Appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in 1935. Family Gilmour first married Mary Louise Lambert, daughter of Edward Tiley Lambert, of Telham Court, Battle, Sussex, on 9 April 1902 at St. Mary's Church in Battle, Sussex. The marriage produced two children, Anne Margaret, born in October 1909, and John, born in October 1912. After Mary Louise's death in 1919, he married her younger sister (his former sister-in-law), Violet Agnes Lambert, in 1920. They had one daughter, Daphne, born in January 1922. Both children from his first marriage both rose to positions of prominence in the civil service. His eldest daughter, Dame Anne Margaret Bryans , worked for the British Red Cross Society and served as vice-chairman of the executive committee from 1964 to 1976, in addition to holding positions in the governorship of many hospitals in the United Kingdom. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Sir John Gilmour, 3rd Baronet, who also had a successful political career. His great-nephew, George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, was also a Conservative MP and served as Scottish Secretary from 1979 to 1986. Notes References Torrance, David, The Scottish Secretaries (Birlinn 2006) External links Obituary of Dame Anne Bryans 1876 births 1940 deaths British Army personnel of the Second Boer War British Army personnel of World War I Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Glasgow constituencies Secretaries of State for Scotland Secretaries of State for the Home Department People educated at Glenalmond College Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Rectors of the University of Edinburgh Masters of foxhounds in Scotland Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Baronets in the