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The London Gazette, 24 August, 1945 4296 THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 AUGUST, 1945 WEST RIDING (cont.)— COUNTY OF FORFAR— ' Ripon Division: Major Christopher YORK. Major Simon RAMSAY, M.C. Rather Valley Division: David GRIFFITHS, Esq. COUNTY OF GALLOWAY— Rothwell Division: Thomas Judson BROOKS, John Hamilton M'KiE, Esq. Esq., M.B.E. BURGH OF GLASGOW— Shipley Division: Arthur Creech JONES, Esq. Bridgeton Division: James MAXTON, Esq. Skipton Division: Captain George Burnaby Camlachie Division: Campbell STEPHEN, Esq. DRAY SON. Cathcart Division: Francis BEATTTE, Esq. Sovierby Division: John William BELCHER, Central Division: Lieutenant-Colonel James Esq. Riley Holt HUTCHISON. Spen Valley Division: Lieutenant-Colonel Gorbals Division: George BUCHANAN, Esq. Granville Maynard SHARP. Govan Division: Neil MACLEAN, Esq. Wenlworth Division: Wilfred PALING, Esq. Hillhead Division: The Right Honourable BOROUGH OF YORK— James Scott Cumberland REID, K.C. John CORLETT, Esq. Kelvingrove Division: John Lloyd WILLIAMS, Esq. SCOTLAND. Maryhill Division: William HANNAN, Esq. COUNTY OF ABERDEEN AND KINCARDINE— Partick Division: Arthur Stewart Leslie "Central Division: Harry Reginald SPENCE, YOUNG, Esq. Esq., O.B.E. Pollok Division: Commander Thomas Dunlop Eastern Division: Robert John Graham GALBRAITH. BOOTHBY, Esq. St. Rollox Division: William LEONARD, Esq. Kincardine and Western Division: Colin Shettleston Division: John McGovERN, Esq. Norman THORNTON-KEMSLEY, Esq. Springburn Division: John C. FORMAN, Esq. BURGH OF ABERDEEN— Tradeston Division: John RANKIN, Esq. North Division: Hector Samuel James BURGH OF GREENOCK— HUGHES, Esq., K.C. Hector MCNEIL, Esq. South Division: Sir James Douglas Wishart THOMSON, Bart. COUNTY OF INVERNESS, Ross AND CROMARTY— Inverness Division: Sir Murdoch MACDONALD, COUNTY OF ARGYLL— K.C.M.G. Major Duncan MOCALLUM, M:C, Ross and Cromarty Division: Captain John COUNTY OF AYR AND BUTE— MACLEOD. Bute and Northern Division: Sir Charles Glen Western Isles Division: Malcolm Kenneth MAC ANDREW. MAcMiLLAN, Esq. Kilmarnock Division: Clarice McNab SHAW. South Ayrshire Division: Alexander SLOAN, BURGHS OF KIRKCALDY DISTRICT— Esq. Thomas Frederick HUBBARD, Esq. BURGHS OF AYR DISTRICT— COUNTY OF LANARK— Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Cecil Russell Bothwell Division: John TIMMONS, Esq. MOORE, C.B.E. Coatbridge Division: Jean MANN. COUNTY OF BANFF— Hamilton Division: Thomas FRASER, Esq. William Smith DUTHIE, Esq., O.B.E. Lanark Division: Thomas STEELE, Esq. Motherwell Division: Alexander ANDERSON, COUNTY OF BERWICK AND HADDINGTON— Esq. John James ROBERTSON, Esq. Northern Division: Margaret HERBISON. COUNTY OF CAITHNESS AND SUTHERLAND— Rutherf>len Division: Gilbert MCALLISTER, Eric Leslie Gandar DOWER, Esq. Esq. COUNTY OF DUMBARTON— BURGH OF LEITH— Adam Storey MCKINLAY, Esq. James Hutchinson HOY, Esq. BURGHS OF DUMBARTON DISTRICT— David KIRKWOOD, Esq. COUNTY OF LINLITHGOW— George MATHERS, Esq. COUNTY OF DUMFRIES—> 'Major (Niall Malcolm Stewart MACPHERSON. COUNTY OF MIDLOTHIAN AND PEEBLES— BURGH OF DUNDEE— Northern Division: Lieutenant-Colonel John Tom COOK, Esq.,. and Wing-Commander Adrian HOPE (commonly called Lord John STRACHEY. John HOPE). Peebles and Southern Division: David BURGHS OF DUNFERMLINE DISTRICT— Johnstone PRYDE, Esq. William McLean WATSON, Esq. BURGH OF EDINBURGH— BURGHS OF MONTROSE DISTRICT— Central Division: Andrew GILZEAN, Esq. John Scott MACLAY, Esq. {commonly called East Division: Frederick William PETHICK- The Honourable John Scott MACLAY). LAWRENCE, Esq. COUNTY OF MORAY AND NAIRN- North Division: Sergeant Eustace George The Right Honourable James STUART, WILLIS. M.V.O., M.C. South Division: Sir William Young DARLING, Kt., C.B.E., M.C. COUNTY OF ORKNEY AND ZETLAND— West Division: Lieutenant-Commander George 'Basil Hamilton Hebden NEVEN-SPENCE, Esq. Ian Clark HUTCHISON, R.N. BURGH OF PAISLEY— THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS, THE UNI- Oliver BALDWIN, Esq. (commonly called VERSITY OF GLASGOW, THE UNIVERSITY OF Viscount CORVEDALE). ABERDEEN, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF EDIN- BURGH— COUNTY OF PERTH AND KINROSS— The Right Honourable Sir John ANDERSON, Kinross and Western Division: William G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., Sir John McNair SNADDEN, Esq. Boyd ORR, D.S.O., M.C., and Sir John Perth Division: Colonel Alan Gomme Graham KERR. DUNCAN. COUNTY OF FIFE— COUNTY OF RENFREW— Eastern Division: James Henderson STEWART, Eastern Division: Ernest Guy Richard Esq. LLOYD, Esq. Western Division: William GALLAGHER, Esq. Western Division: Thomas SCOLLAN, Esq..
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