Sir William Lithgow, 2nd Baronet (born 1934), Scottish industrialist from shipbuilding family
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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 William is the son of Sir James Lithgow, 1st Baronet, and Lady Gwendolyn Lithgow, whose family homes were Gleddoch House, at Langbank on the Clyde, a few miles from their shipyards at Port Glasgow, and Ormsary, their country estate in Knapdale.
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Sir William and others involved challenged the amount of compensation they were offered and ended up taking their case to the European Court of Human Rights.