Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael

Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael

Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael GCSI, GCIE, KCMG, DL (18 March 1859 – 16 January 1926), known as Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 11th Baronet, from 1891 to 1912, was a Scottish Liberal Party politician.

The eldest son of Rev. Sir William Henry Gibson-Carmichael, 10th Baronet and Eleanora Anderson, he was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He succeeded his father as 11th Baronet in 1891.

He was Private Secretary to Sir George Trevelyan and Lord Dalhousie, when Secretaries for Scotland and was Chairman of the Scottish Board of Lunacy from 1894–1897.

He contested Peebles and Selkirk in 1892, and sat as Liberal member for Midlothian from 1895–1900, succeeding William Gladstone. He was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 1904–1908, and of National Gallery from 1906–1908 and from 1923–1926. He was Governor of Victoria, Australia, 1908–1911; Madras, 1911–1912; Bengal, 1912–1917; Lord Lieutenant of Peeblesshire, 1920–1926.

He was appointed a KCMG in 1908, GCIE in 1911 and GCSI in 1917. In 1912 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Carmichael, of Skirling in the County of Peebles.

The Barony became extinct on his death, and he was succeeded to the baronetcy by his cousin Sir Henry Thomas Gibson-Craig, 5th Baronet.

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