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Also Known As Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond of Firth • Joseph Grimond
Born July 29, 1913 • St. Andrews • Scotland
Died October 24, 1993 (aged 80) • Kirkwall • Scotland
Title / Office House of Commons (1950-1983), United Kingdom
Political Affiliation Liberal Party
Campbell-Bannerman
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
prime minister of United Kingdom
Lord Haldane, oil painting by P.A. de László, 1928; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan
Scottish statesman
Sir Donald Currie
British shipowner and politician
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
David Lloyd George
David Lloyd George
prime minister of United Kingdom
Lord Palmerston
Lord Palmerston
prime minister of United Kingdom
William E. Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone
prime minister of United Kingdom
Asquith
H.H. Asquith, 1st earl of Oxford and Asquith
prime minister of United Kingdom
John Russell
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
prime minister of United Kingdom
Rosebery, ink drawing by an unknown artist; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of Rosebery
prime minister of United Kingdom
Lord Ripon, oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1895; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Frederick Samuel Robinson, 1st marquess of Ripon
British statesman
Bryce, James
James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
British statesman
Goschen (of Hawkhurst), George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount
George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen
British economist
Hugh Childers, detail of an oil painting by Emily Childers (his daughter), 1891; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers
British politician
Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th earl of Elgin
British viceroy of India
Plimsoll, Samuel
Samuel Plimsoll
British politician and social reformer
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet
British historian
Alexander Monro, tertius
Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator
Tony Blair
Tony Blair
prime minister of United Kingdom
Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown
prime minister of United Kingdom