Old Photograph James Ramsay MacDonald House Lossiemouth Scotland

Old photograph of the James Ramsay MacDonald house on Prospect Terrace in Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. James was born on 12 October 1866 at Gregory Place, Lossiemouth, he was the illegitimate son of John MacDonald, a farm labourer, and Anne Ramsay, a housemaid. He became a British statesman who was the first ever Labour Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading a Labour Government in 1924, a Labour Government from 1929 to 1931, and a National Government from 1931 to 1935. In 1909 he built this house, the Hillocks, for his mother to look after his six children while he was abroad. Two were born in Lossiemouth and the older ones started school there. In 1910 his mother Annie Ramsay died and in 1911 his wife Margaret died. He died on board the liner Reina del Pacifico at sea on 9 November 1937, aged 71. He was buried alongside his wife at Spynie in his native Morayshire.



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