Malcolm McCorquodale, 1st Baron McCorquodale of Newton

Malcolm Stewart McCorquodale, 1st Baron McCorquodale of Newton, (29 March 1901 – 25 September 1971) was a British businessman and Conservative politician.

Background and education

McCorquodale was the son of Norman McCorquodale, of Winslow Hall, Buckinghamshire, and the grandson of George McCorquodale, founder of McCorquodale printers. His mother was Constance Helena, daughter of Edmund Charles Burton. He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford.

Business career

McCorquodale was chairman of McCorquodale and Company Ltd, and a director of the Bank of Scotland.

He was conferred a KCVO in the 1965 Birthday Honours.

Family

Lord McCorquodale married firstly Winifred Sophia Doris, daughter of James Oscar Max Clark, in 1931. They had two daughters, Pamela (b.1934) who married William Forbes of Callendar, and Prudence (b.1936) who married Carel Maurits Mosselmans.

After his first wife's death in November 1960, he married secondly the Honourable Daisy Yoskul Consuelo, daughter of Weetman Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray and widow of both Robert Brampton Gurdon and Alistair Monteith Gibb, in 1962.

Lord McCorquodale died in September 1971, aged 70, when the barony became extinct. Lady McCorquodale died in 1979.