Alick Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno

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Alick Buchanan-Smith Drummond, Baron Balerno CBE JP DL (* 9. October 1898 ; † 28. July 1984 ) was a British officer of the Territorial Army of the British Army , who in 1963 as a Life Peer due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords has been.

Life

Buchanan-Smith was a son of the Anglican clergyman Sir George Adam Smith, who was, among other things, principal of the University of Aberdeen , and did his military service between 1916 and 1918 with The Gordon Highlanders during the First World War . He then remained in military service and, after 1936, was successively Commanding Officer of the 5th, 7th and 9th  Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders, before he was responsible for personnel selection as Brigadier General in the War Office during the Second World War between 1942 and 1945 was. After the end of the war he was commanding officer of the officer training corps of the troop contingent of the Territorial Army of the British Army at the University of Edinburgh between 1945 and 1953 and then retired.

Buchanan-Smith, who also temporarily magistrate ( justice of the peace ) and Deputy Lieutenant of Midlothian was in 1958 honorary colonel of 5/6. Battalion and in 1961 also Colonel of Honor of the 3rd Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders. He was also vice chairman of the Unionist Party of Scotland from 1960 to 1963 and was also commander of the Order of the British Empire . Since 1928 he was a member ( Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Most recently, Buchanan-Smith was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated July 9, 1963 as a life peer with the title Baron Balerno , of Currie in the County of Midlothian, and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death. His son Alick Buchanan-Smith was a Conservative Party politician who was a member of the House of Commons from 1964 until his death in 1991 and held several junior ministerial offices.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed April 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Buchanan-Smith, Alick, Baron Balerno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchanan-Smith, Alick Drummond, Baron Balerno (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1898
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1984