Buchan, Priscilla Jean Fortesque, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, politician, née Thomson, then Grant, 1915-1978
Person
Biography
Lady Tweedsmuir was MP for South Aberdeen from 1946 to 1966 and was created a life peer as Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie in 1970. She was a UK delegate to the Council of Europe at Strasbourg, 1950-1953, and to the United Nations, 1960-1961; a Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Scottish Office, 1960-1964; an Opposition Front Bench spokeswoman on foreign affairs, 1965-1966; a Minister of State at the Scottish Office, 1970-1972, and at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 1972-1974; and a Privy Councillor, 1974-1978.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of Priscilla, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, and some papers of John, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, 1945-1978; with a speech, 1935, of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.337- This deposit is is now part of Acc.11884.
Dates:
1935, 1945-1978.
Political and personal correspondence and papers of Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, including some papers of John Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11884/1-359
Scope and Contents
These papers provide a very full and extensive record of the political and public career of Lady Tweedsmuir, particularly of Scottish politics from 1945 to 1974, and of foreign policy in the early 1970s in her areas of responsibility as Minister of State, for example, the 'Cod War' dispute with Iceland. Business papers include some relating to her directorship of the transatlantic Cunard Line, and the construction and launching of RMS ‘Queen Elizabeth 2’. Some papers of Lord Tweedsmuir,...
Dates:
Circa 1911-circa 1998.