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Correspondence, Jan-Aug 1905, mostly addressed to Sir Arthur at Brownsover Hall. Topics include arrangements to speak on tariff reform and imperial preference, correspondence with his bank (Coutts), purchase of shares (e.g. in the Canadian Pacific Railway), purchase of books (including correspondence from French and German suppliers), purchase of a motor car, repair of guns, and letters from his brother in the army. A small amount of correspondence relates to Stirling, including the drafting of his will, water supply (with references to Grangemouth), the establishment of public houses in the Polmaise and Cowie areas, and the bill proposed by the Caledonian Railway to extinguish three rights of way. |
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Arthur H Drummond Steel was born on 5 July 1876, the son of Colonel E H Steel and Emmeline Drummond. He assumed the name Ramsay Steel-Maitland when he married Mary Gibson-Maitland in 1901. He was educated at Rugby School and the University of Oxford. He was created First Baronet Steel-Maitland in 1917. His political career included service as private secretary to two Chancellors of the Exchequer from 1902-1905; Member of Parliament for East Birmingham from 1910-1929; Chairman of the Unionist Party from 1911-1916; Parliamentary under-secretary for the Colonies, 1915; Parliamentary secretary to the Board of Trade under Lloyd-George, 1917; Minister of Labour under Stanley Baldwin, 1924; worked with Churchill during the General Strike. Although defeated in the general election of 1929, he was later returned at a by-election at Tamworth. He had homes at Brownsover Hall, near Rugby; 94 Queens Gate, London; and Sauchie, Clackmananshire. He died in Sussex on 30 March 1935, and is buried at Stirling. |