Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Leader Margaret Thatcher Died August 29, 1991 Preceded by Hamish Gray Preceded by Willie Ross Party Conservative Party | Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Name Alick Buchanan-Smith Succeeded by Peter Morrison Preceded by Edward Bishop Role Politician | |
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Education Pembroke College, Cambridge, University of Edinburgh | ||
Alick Laidlaw Buchanan-Smith (8 April 1932 – 29 August 1991) was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist politician.
The second son of Alick Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno and Mary Kathleen Smith, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Glenalmond College, Pembroke College, Cambridge and University of Edinburgh. He was commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders and did his National Service from 1951. He served from 1953 to 1959 as Chairman of the Central Organisation of Military Education Committees of the Universities and University Colleges, what is now the Council of Military Education Committees of the Universities of the United Kingdom (COMEC).
He was unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for West Fife in 1959, and sat as member for North Angus and Mearns from 1964 to 1983 and for Kincardine and Deeside from 1983 until his death.
He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1970–74, Minister of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1979–83, and Minister of State for Energy from 1983-87. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1981.
He is buried under a very modest memorial in the north-east corner of Currie Cemetery, next to his parents and eldest brother, Rev George Adam Buchanan-Smith (1929-1983).