Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar
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Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar Bt PC (b. 8 July 1926), is a former Conservative politician in the United Kingdom.
Gilmour was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. He served with the Grenadier Guards 1944-47. He was a journalist and barrister, called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1952. He was proprietor of The Spectator and its editor 1954-59.
Gilmour contested the Hounslow West by-election, 1962. He became Member of Parliament for Norfolk Central in another by-election the same year. He held this seat until 1974 when his seat was abolished due to boundary changes, and he stood for the safe Conservative seat of Chesham and Amersham, sitting as its MP from 1974 until his retirement in 1992.
He served in Edward Heath's Cabinet as Defence Secretary and under Margaret Thatcher as Lord Privy Seal from 1979, as the chief Government spokesman in the House of Commons for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs working to the Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, who sat in the House of Lords. He did not have good relations with Thatcher, and was sacked in 1981. In 1989, he was considered by discontented backbenchers as a possible future leader. However, he did not participate in frontline British politics again, and was given a life peerage in 1992.
Gilmour is known for writing coherently from the One Nation perspective of the Conservative Party, in opposition to Thatcherism; in particular in his books Dancing with Dogma and Whatever Happened to the Tories and in his critical articles in journals such as the London Review of Books. He is a pro-European. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1977, becoming Sir Ian Gilmour, 3rd Baronet.
On 10 July 1951, Gilmour married Caroline Margaret Montagu-Douglas-Scott, the youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch, and they have five children together.
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