Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir

Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie , PC ( January 25, 1915 , † March 11, 1978 ) was a politician of the Scottish Unionist Party and the Scottish Conservative Party .

Born as Priscilla Jean Fortescue Thomson , she was a daughter of Brigadier Alan F. Thomson, DSO . In 1934 she married Major Sir Arthur Lindsay Grant 11th Baronet, a soldier in the Grenadier Guards . He fell in World War II in 1944 . In 1948 she married the author and politician John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir , in her second marriage .

Lady Tweedsmuir ran unsuccessfully in the British general election in the constituency of Aberdeen North in July 1945 , but she was elected in Aberdeen South in 1946 and held her seat in the House of Commons until 1966. She was a delegate of the Council of Europe from 1950–53 , and from 1960–61 delegate of the United Kingdom in the United Nations General Assembly , 1962-64 joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland , 1970-71 Minister of State for Scotland in the Scottish Office and in 1972-74 in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office . In 1974 she became Privy Counselor .

In 1970 she was raised to the nobility as Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie , of Potterton in the County of Aberdeen as a Life Peer and thus a member of the House of Lords . There she served as Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees from 1974-77, and during the same period, 1974-77, as Chairman of the Select Committee on European Communities . She was also the deputy spokesperson. She died of cancer in 1978 at the age of 63.

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• Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir
• Lady Tweedsmuir in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)