James Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn

Captain The Right Honourable The Viscount Stuart of Findhorn CH MVO MC* PC
Photograph of Stuart by Walter Stoneman, taken August 1943.
Secretary of State for Scotland
In office 30 October 1951 – 9 January 1957
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill Sir Anthony Eden
Preceded by	Hector McNeil
Succeeded by	John Maclay
Chief Whip of the House of Commons Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
In office 14 January 1941 – 26 July 1945 Serving with Charles Edwards and William Whiteley
Prime Minister	Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Charles Edwards
Succeeded by	William Whiteley
Lord Commissioner of the Treasury
In office 1 May 1935 – 14 January 1941
Prime Minister	Ramsay MacDonald Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill
Preceded by	Lambert Ward
Succeeded by	Thomas Dugdale
Parliamentary offices Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal In office 20 November 1959 – 20 February 1971 Hereditary Peerage Preceded by Peerage created Succeeded by The 2nd Viscount Stuart of Findhorn Member of Parliament for Moray and Nairn In office 6 December 1923 – 8 October 1959 Preceded by Thomas Maule Guthrie Succeeded by Gordon Campbell
Personal details
Born	James Gray Stuart (1897-02-09)9 February 1897 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	20 February 1971(1971-02-20) (aged 74) Salisbury, England
Nationality	British
Political party	Unionist
Spouse	Rachel Cavendish ​ (m. 1923)​
Children	3

James Gray Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn, CH, MVO, MC*, PC (9 February 1897 – 20 February 1971) was a British Unionist politician. He was joint-Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in Winston Churchill's war-time coalition government and later served as Secretary of State for Scotland under Churchill and then Sir Anthony Eden from 1951 to 1957. In 1959 he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Stuart of Findhorn.