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Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie

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Priscilla Jean Fortescue Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie (25 January 1915 - 11 March 1978) was a Scottish Conservative politician.

The daughter of Brigadier Alan F. Thomson DSO, she married Major Sir Arthur Lindsay Grant, 11th Baronet, Grenadier Guards in 1934. He was killed in action in 1944. She subsequently married John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir in 1948.

She was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for Aberdeen North in July 1945, and was elected for Aberdeen South in 1946, holding the seat until 1966.

She was a delegate to the Council of Europe from 1950-1953, a UK Delegate to General Assembly of the United Nations, 1960-1961; Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1962-1964; Minister of State at the Scottish Office from 1970-1972 and at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1972-1974. She was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1974.

In the House of Commons she served as Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees, 1974-1977 and as Chairman of the Select Committee on European Communities, 1974-1977. She was also a Deputy Speaker.

In 1970 she was created a Life Baroness as Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie.