The village of Strathyre

Strathyre is a district and settlement in the Stirling local government district of Scotland. It forms the south-eastern part of the parish of Balquhidder and was, prior to the 1973 reorganisation of local government, part of Perthshire. It is within the bounds of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.

The district of Strathyre extends from east of Balquhidder, following the River Balvaig which flows out of Loch Voil, almost due south to Loch Lubnaig. The River Balvaig is 8 kilometres in length, almost all of which lies in Strathyre. It falls by around 5 metres between Loch Voil and Loch Lubnaig. The A84 road and the route of the former Callander and Oban Railway run through the valley, as does the old 18th century military road.

The Strathyre Forest, which extends well beyond the limits of Strathyre proper, is managed by the Forestry Commission, forming the eastern-most part of the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park.

The village of Strathyre is largely a Victorian creation, having grown up with the arrival of the railway in the 1870s and the establishment of Strathyre railway station. The resident population recorded by the United Kingdom Census 2001 was around 100. The village is a popular tourist centre, with nearby caravan parks, camp sites and chalets, and canoeing, cycling and walking facilities.

External links[link]

• Strathyre Forest at forestry.gov.uk

Coordinates: 56°19′34″N 4°19′44″W / 56.326°N 4.329°W / 56.326; -4.329

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Sir Peter Hugh Morrison PC (2 June 1944 – 13 July 1995) was a British Conservative politician, MP for Chester from 1974 to 1992, and Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Background and education[link]

Morrison was the third son of John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale, by the Honourable Margaret Smith, daughter of William Smith, 2nd Viscount Hambleden and Lady Esther Gore. Sir Charles Morrison, Conservative MP for Devizes from 1964 to 1992, was his elder brother. He was educated at Eton and Keble College, Oxford, where he studied Law.

Political career[link]

Morrison was first elected to the House of Commons in the general election of February 1974 for Chester. He had been one of the first back-bench MPs to urge Margaret Thatcher to stand for the Party leadership in 1975. He was Deputy Conservative Party Chairman under Norman Tebbit, having been previously a Parliamentary Undersecretary of State and Minister of State in the Department of Employment. In 1987 he was Minister of State for Energy.^[1]

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Margaret Thatcher in 1990 and was the leader of her campaign team in the Conservative leadership election of the same year. He was relaxed about Thatcher's prospects and predicted an easy win for her. Alan Clark went to visit Morrison one afternoon during the campaign and found him asleep in his office. Morrison claimed he had enough MPs down as Thatcher supporters to ensure she would win. After the first ballot among Conservative MPs had shown that Thatcher did not have enough votes to win outright, Morrison suggested to her that she should consult the Cabinet one-by-one to gauge support. He said to her: "Prime Minister, if you haven't won then there are a lot of Tory MPs who are lying".^[2] He stood down at the 1992 general election, being succeeded as MP for Chester by Gyles Brandreth.

Personal life[link]

According to journalist Simon Heffer, Morrison was gay and went cruising in Sussex Gardens.^[3] Fellow Conservative MP Michael Brown, himself openly gay, has described Morrison as gay in a column published in The Independent.^[4] Morrison died of a heart attack early in the morning of 13 July 1995, aged 50.

In popular culture[link]

Morrison was portrayed by Nicholas Jones in the 2004 BBC production of The Alan Clark Diaries, and by Rupert Vansittart in the 2009 BBC production of Margaret.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Peter Morrison
• Obituary by Patrick Cosgrave.
• Obituary by Sir Archibald Hamilton.