title: James Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale
text: # James Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale
  
  Maj James Ian Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale TD DL (17 July 1930 – 6 April 2003) was a British peer.
  
  Morrison was the son of Major John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale and the Honourable Margaret Esther Lucie Smith. He married Clare Barclay, daughter of Anthony Lister Barclay, on 14 October 1952. They had three children:
  
  * Hon. Fiona Elizabeth Morrison (born 1954), married Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard in 1975 and had four children.
  * Alastair Morrison, 3rd Baron Margadale (born 4 April 1958), married Lady Sophia Cavendish in 1988 and had two children.
  * Hon. Hugh ("Hughie") Morrison (born 1960), married Jane Jenks in 1986 and had two children.
  
  After Ludgrove and Eton he attended the Royal Agricultural College. He was commissioned into the Life Guards in 1949 before transferring into the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and reaching the rank of Major in 1964. He was a member of Wiltshire County Council in 1955 and again from 1973 to 1977, as well as chairman of the West Wiltshire Conservative Association from 1967 to 1971. He went on to be appointed as Honorary Colonel of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry in 1982 and then of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry from 1984 until 1989.
  
  The family seat is the Fonthill estate in southern Wiltshire. Morrison took over the Fonthill Stud from his father in 1972, and had success in several classic horseraces.
  
  ## Arms
  
  Coat of arms of James Morrison, 2nd Baron Margadale :
  
  * CrestThree Saracens' heads conjoined in one neck one looking to the dexter one affrontée and one looking to the sinister all Proper
  * EscutcheonTierced in pairle Azure Sable and Gules in chief a Saracen's head couped affrontée and in base two Saracens' heads addorsed in profile all Argent and at the fess point an inescutcheon parted per pale dexter per bend sinister embattled Gules and Or in dexter chief a battleaxe paleways Argent and in sinister base issuant from a base undy Azure and Argent a tower Sable masoned Argent port Gules (Morrison of Islay) sinister Vert powdered with bezants a horse rearing on its hind legs Argent langued and hoofed Gules (Lordship of Margadale)
  * SupportersOn either side a woodcock Proper
  * MottoPraetio Prudentia Praestat (Prudence Before Any Thought Of A Reward)
  * BadgeThrough an annulet Argent a sword in pale point upwards Proper
  