Sir Ivar Colquhoun, 8th Baronet

Sir Ivar Iain Colquhoun, 8th Baronet, JP, DL (4 January 1916 – 31 January 2008) was a Scottish noble.

Biography

Early life Sir Ivar was the son of Sir Iain Colquhoun, 7th Baronet and his wife Geraldine Bryde (Dinah) Tennant. He was educated at Eton.

Career He was working at a lumber camp in Finland at the outbreak of World War II, and joined a Territorial Army battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as a private soldier. When the Soviet Union invaded Finland in November 1939, he was seconded to the 5th (Ski) Battalion Scots Guards. This was disbanded after Finland was forced to accept Russian terms in March 1940. and served in Libya during the siege of Tobruk, later to become the subject of some of his drier reminiscences. to serve as a liaison officer, and subsequently as a captain in the Coldstream Guards. Iona Mary (1945–2024), who married the 12th Duke of Argyll (1937–2001) in 1964, and had one son (the present Duke) and one daughter; and Malcolm Rory Colquhoun (b 20 Dec 1947), 9th baronet. He was styled Malcolm Colquhoun of Luss, younger of Luss, following the death of his elder brother as the heir to the baronetcy and estate. He married for the second time in October 1989 Katharine A.H. Mears, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs A.C. Mears, of Canberra, Australia, and has issue by her.