David Gordon Allen d'Aldecamb Lumsden

David Gordon Allen d'Aldecamb Lumsden of Cushnie, FSAL, FSAS (25 May 1933, in Quetta, Baluchistan, Empire of India (now Pakistan) – 29 August 2008, in Fort William, Scotland) was a Scottish businessman, nationalist and sometime Baron of Cushnie-Lumsden (in Aberdeen).

The son of Henry Gordon Strange Lumsden and Sydney Mary Elliot, he studied at Allhallows, Devon; Bedford School; and Jesus College, Cambridge (MA). He served in the Territorial Army with the London Scottish.^[1]

Career

He worked as an executive at British American Tobacco from 1959 until his retirement in 1982. He was the Director of Heritage Porcelain Ltd. and Heritage Recordings Ltd.^[2]

Religious affiliations

Knight of the Order of Malta (1980)
Knight of Justice, Constantinian Order of St. George (1978)
Knight, Order of Ss Maurice and Lazarus, 1999

Death

His Requiem Mass in 2008 was the first celebration in St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, since 1969, of Mass in the 1962 form, approved in July of the previous year as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.

Nationalist or secular affiliations

Garioch Pursuivant to the Chief of the Name and Arms of Mar (currently Margaret of Mar, the 30th Countess of Mar)
Co-founder, Scottish Historic Organs Trust (1991 - his death)
Co-founder and Chairman, Castles of Scotland Preservation Trust (1985 - his death)
President, Scottish Military History Society
Admiral the Viscount Keppel Association
Patron of the Aboyne Highland Games (1999 - his death)
President of the 1745 Association/Scottish Military History Society (1991 - his death)
Convenor of the Monarchist League of Scotland (1993)
Member of Lloyd's Register (1985 - 2001)
Member, Council, Royal Stuart Society

References

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, March 18, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.