Viscount Dunrossil, of Vallaquie and of the Isle of North Uist in the County of Inverness, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1959 for the Conservative

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 politician William Morrison

William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil

William Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, GCMG, MC, KStJ, PC, QC , the 14th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Scotland and educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh. He joined the British Army in the First World War and served with an artillery regiment...

 upon his retirement as Speaker of the House of Commons

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. His son, the second Viscount, notably served as High Commissioner to Fiji

Fiji

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 and as Governor of Bermuda

Governor of Bermuda

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. the title is held by the latter's son, the third Viscount, who succeeded in 2000.

Viscounts Dunrossil (1959)

• William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil
  William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil
  William Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, GCMG, MC, KStJ, PC, QC , the 14th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Scotland and educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh. He joined the British Army in the First World War and served with an artillery regiment...
  
   (1893–1961)
• John William Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil
  John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil
  Flight Lieutenant John William Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil CMG JP was a diplomat and British peer. He was present in the South African courtroom when Nelson Mandela was sentenced to 27 years' imprisonment and obtained study materials for Mandela to achieve a law degree from the University of...
  
   (1926–2000)
• Andrew William Reginald Morrison, 3rd Viscount Dunrossil (b. 1953)

The heir apparent

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is the present holder's son Hon. Callum Alasdair Brundage Morrison (b. 1994)