Moir Tod Stormonth Darling, Lord Stormonth-Darling

Stormonth-Darling's house at 10 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh

Stormonth-Darling was born on 3 November 1844, the son of Elizabeth Moir Tod, daughter James Tod of, Deanstoun, and James Stormonth Darling of Lednathie WS (1830-1881). He was educated at Kelso Grammar School then studied law at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MA.[2]

In November 1888, he was elected in an unopposed by-election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities.[1] from 1888 appointed as Solicitor General for Scotland. He resigned the seat in 1890, when he was appointed to judiciary as a Lord of Session,[1] an office which he held until 1908[4]

In 1897 he was President of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club and gave the Toast to Sir Walter at the club's annual dinner. In 1900 he featured in a set of Copes cigarette cards of well known golfers. The card, numbered 49, depicts him standing in a bunker and is entitled "Duffers Yet".

He was a Director of both Scottish Provident and the Bank of Scotland, a member of the Court of the University of Edinburgh, a Railway Commissioner for Scotland and (like his father) a member of the Royal Company of Archers. He wrote books on golf and also collected ballads.[5]

In later years he lived at Balvarran in Perthshire and 10 Great Stuart Street, an impressive Georgian townhouse on the Moray Estate in Edinburgh's West End.[6]

He died at home on 2 June 1912 aged 67.

He was married to Ethel Hay Young, daughter of Major William Baird Young (a relation of Brigham Young), in 1892.[3]

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Moir Darling