William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany

William John St Clair Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany, MC PC (5 March 1905 – 6 August 1985) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.

Early life and career The only son of Col. William Anstruther-Gray of Kilmany and Clayre Jessie Tennant, he was born in Cupar, Fife, Scotland, and was educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford.

Military service He served as a Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards from 1926-30, and with the Shanghai Defence Force in 1927–28. to 1980. He was also the Crown nominee for Scotland on the General Medical Council from 1952-65.

He was created a baronet in 1956, appointed a Privy Counsellor in the 1962 Birthday Honours.

Upon his defeat at the 1966 election, he was created a life peer as Baron Kilmany, of Kilmany in the County of Fife.

Family In 1934, Anstruther-Gray married Monica Helen Lambton, only child of Geoffrey Lambton, second son of Frederick Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham. They had two children.

On 22 July 1985, Anstruther-Gray collapsed in the Lords chamber, and died in Westminster Hospital on 6 August, aged 80.