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Laura Miranda Grimond, Baroness Grimond (née Bonham-Carter; 13 October 1918 – 15 February 1994) was a British Liberal Party politician, and the wife of party leader Jo Grimond.
17. Feb. 1994 · LAURA GRIMOND was one of those splendid invisible women who helped other women and political pluralism without seeking publicity for herself. She wrote little, cared...
Colin Campbell Mitchell (* 17. November 1925 in Croydon; † 20. Juli 1996 in Westminster) war ein britischer Offizier der British Army und Politiker. Er war auch unter seinem Spitznamen Mad Mitch („verrückter Mitch“) bekannt. Seine Rolle als Kommandeur des 1.
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Grimond was born in St Andrews, Fife, to jute manufacturer Joseph Bowman Grimond and Helen Lydia, née Richardson. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. He was at school and university with, among others, cricket commentator Brian Johnston and playwright William Douglas-Home. He received a first-class honours degree in Politic...
After serving as a major in World War II, he was selected by the Liberal Party to contest Orkney and Shetland, the most northerly constituency in the United Kingdom. He narrowly missed capturing the seat in 1945 but entered Parliament at the 1950 general electionfor the constituency. The Liberals and their successors, the Liberal Democrats, have co...
In 1938, Grimond married liberal politician Laura Bonham Carter (1918–1994). His wife was the granddaughter of the former Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, and the daughter of the influential Liberal politician and peer Violet Asquith (1887–1969) and her politician and civil servant husband, Maurice Bonham Carter. Laura Grimond was also the sis...
The Liberal Future(Faber and Faber, London, 1959)The Liberal Challenge(Hollis and Carter, London, 1963)(with Brian Nevel) The Referendum (Rex Collings, London, 1975)The Common Welfare(Temple Smith, London, 1978)Peter Barberis, Liberal Lion: Jo Grimond, A Political Life(I.B. Tauris, London, 2005)Michael McManus, Jo Grimond: Towards the Sound of Gunfire(Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2001)Peter Sloman, "Jo Grimond and the Liberal Revival, 1956–64," in The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929–1964 (2014) doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198723509.003.0008Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Jo GrimondPortraits of Jo Grimond at the National Portrait Gallery, LondonWhile Lord Grimond was the more prominent of the couple, Lady Laura, a member of the Asquith dynasty, was also very active in Liberal politics. She was President of the Women’s Liberal Federation and fought (unsuccessfully) the seat of West Aberdeenshire for her party.
Grimond was a bit of an agent provocateur, who liked to toss a hand grenade into the room and see what happened, whilst Laura Grimond was much more realistic, much more political. It was – he believed – in the genes. Grimond’s marriage in a sense gave him his passport into Liberal politics. His mother-in-law was the
15. Feb. 1994 · Laura Grimond – Journal of Liberal History. Born 30th October 1918 - Died 15th February 1994. Baroness Grimond. Journal Articles (subject) The following journal articles are about Laura Grimond or mention them in some way: A perfect balance. Jo Grimond's Liberalism.
