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unusual facts about Sir James Montgomery, 2nd Baronet



Bibby Line

In 2002 Sir Derek Bibby, 2nd baronet, and great-great-grandson of the founder and past chairman and president of the firm, was aged 80 and terminally ill with leukemia.

Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet

In 1767, he bought for £40,000 Stanhope and Stobo in Peeblesshire, part of the estates of Sir David Murray, which had been confiscated for their owner's complicity in the rebellion of 1745.

Sir James Montgomery, 2nd Baronet

He married, firstly, Lady Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk and Helen Hamilton, on 1 August 1804.

Sir James Montgomery, 4th Baronet

The resolution being carried, Montgomery was named one of three commissioners that for the shires to offer the Scottish crown to William and Mary.


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