The Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie | |
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Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
In office 7 April 1972 – 4 March 1974 | |
Prime Minister | Edward Heath |
Preceded by | Richard Wood |
Succeeded by | Julian Amery |
Minister of State for Scotland | |
In office 23 June 1970 – 7 April 1972 | |
Prime Minister | Edward Heath |
Preceded by | The Lord Hughes |
Succeeded by | The Lord Polwarth |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland | |
In office 3 December 1962 – 16 October 1964 | |
Prime Minister | Harold Macmillan Alec Douglas-Home |
Preceded by | Tam Galbraith |
Succeeded by | The Lord Hughes |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
In office 1 July 1970 – 11 March 1978 Life peerage | |
Member of Parliament for Aberdeen South | |
In office 26 November 1946 – 10 March 1966 | |
Preceded by | Sir Douglas Thomson, Bt |
Succeeded by | Donald Dewar |
Personal details | |
Born | Priscilla Thomson 25 January 1915 |
Died | 11 March 1978 Aberdeenshire, Scotland | (aged 63)
Political party | Scottish Conservative Party |
Other political affiliations | Unionist Party (until 1965) |
Spouses | |
Priscilla Jean Fortescue Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie PC (née Thomson; 25 January 1915 – 11 March 1978),[1] styled as Priscilla, Lady Grant between 1934 and 1944, and as Lady Tweedsmuir between 1948 and 1970, was a Unionist and Conservative politician.