Anthony Stodart, Baron Stodart of Leaston

James Anthony Stodart, Baron Stodart of Leaston PC ( June 6, 1916 - May 31, 2003 ) was a Scottish Conservative Party politician .

Life

James Stodart was the son of a colonel in the Indian medical service. After the death of his father, at the age of only 18, he took over the family farm in Kingston , North Berwick , East Lothian . Eventually he farmed an area of ​​more than 3.2 km ² in Leaston near Humbie , East Lothian.

Despite being an active Tory in his youth, Stodart fell out with the party and joined the Liberals , for whom he ran for the House of Commons in 1950 in the Berwick and East Lothian constituency . The following year, Stodart returned to the Tories and stood for them now, 1951, as a candidate in the constituency of Midlothian and Peebles and in 1955 in the Midlothian constituency.

In the general election of 1959 he was elected MP for the constituency of Edinburgh West. He held this seat until the general election in October 1974 , when a colleague of the Tories, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , succeeded him.

Stodart served 1963-1964 as Secretary of State in the Scottish Office under British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home and 1970-1974 in the Ministry of Agriculture under Prime Minister Edward Heath .

After leaving the House of Commons, Stodart was chairman of the Agriculture Credit Corporation from 1975 to 1987, and in 1980 led an investigation into the Scottish regional government . In 1981 he was named a Life Peer titled Baron Stodart of Leaston , of Humbie in East Lothian .

Stodart's wife Hazel, with whom he had no children, died in 1995, he himself died in 2003 at the age of 86.

Web links

• Anthony Stodart at Hansard (English)