- Tam Galbraith
Sir Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, KBE, MA, LL.B (usually known as Tam Galbraith) (
10 March 1917 –2 January 1982 ) was a Conservative politician.The eldest son and heir of
Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde , he was educated atAytoun House ,Glasgow ; Wellington College;Christ Church, Oxford (MA) and at theUniversity of Glasgow (LL.B).He served as a Lieutenant in the
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1939-1946. He unsuccessfully contested Paisley in July 1945, and Edinburgh East in October 1945 before being elected for Glasgow Hillhead in 1948.He was Assistant Conservative Whip, 1950; a Government Whip from 1951-57;
Civil Lord of the Admiralty , 1957-59;Under-Secretary of State for Scotland , 1959-62; andParliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport , 1963-64.He was President of the
Scottish Georgian Society from 1970-1980 and was a Member of theRoyal Company of Archers . He was knighted (KBE) in 1982.His death in 1982 triggered the Hillhead by-election that saw the election of
Roy Jenkins . His sonThomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde was subsequently a Conservative junior Minister, Chief Whip in the Lords and Shadow Leader of the House of Lords.ee also
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