Lord Forres the fourth Baron, died in Orange, New South Wales, 12 April, 2025. He was 78.
Alastair Stephen Grant Williamson was born 16 May, 1946, son of John, 3rd Baron Forres (1922-1978), and his first wife the former Gillian Ann MacLean Grant, 1st daughter of Maj John MacLean Grant, of The Cavalry Club, Piccadilly, London, and succeeded to the peerage (cr UK, 1922), and the family baronetcy (Cr UK, 1909), on his father's death, 22 September, 1978.
He took his seat as a Crossbencher in the House of Lords on his father's death in 1978, but lost his seat with the eviction of the hereditary peers in Blair's reform of the upper house in Nov 1999.
He married 2 May, 1969, Margaret Ann Mallam, daughter of George John Mallam, of Mullumbimby, New South Wales, Australia, by whom he had issue, two sons, the Hon George Archibald Mallam Williamson (born 16 Aug, 1972), and the Hon Guthrie John Williamson (born 14 Apr, 1975). The elder son succeeds as 5th Baron Forres.
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