LIEUTENANT Colonel Alistair Joseph Edward Cranstoun of that Ilk and of
Corehouse, Lanark, chief of the clan Cranstoun, died on Wednesday at his
home.
In his military and diplomatic career during and after the Second
World War he played a key role both in arranging the Italian army
surrender in 1943 (when Mussolini was replaced by Marshal Badoglio) and
in the final withdrawal of occupying forces when Austria became an
independent nation. He was 79 and had been suffering from Alzheimer's
Disease.
After his retiral in 1959 Lieutenant Colonel Cranstoun became a
deputy-lieutenant of Lanarkshire. He was deeply involved in local
affairs and became an area commissioner for the Scout movement, turned
over part of his land to the National Wildlife Trust, and also devoted
his life to the promotion of Italian interests in Scotland.
Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs Cranstoun had no family, so the new chief
of the clan will be their nephew, Mr David Lockhart, a senior
agricultural lecturer at the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of
Agriculture, who lives at Aberlady, East Lothian.
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