Michael Noble, Baron Glenkinglas

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Michael Antony Cristobal Noble, Baron Glenkinglas, PC (19 March 1913 - 15 May 1984) was a Scottish Tory politician.

Noble was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford. A farmer, he was president of the Black Face Sheep Breeders' Association and the Highland Cattle Society. He was an Argyll County Councillor and a director of Associated Fisheries.

From a by-election in June 1958 until 1974 he was Member of Parliament for Argyll. He lost his seat at the February 1974 general election to Iain MacCormick, a teacher and son of Scottish National Party founder member Professor John MacCormick.

Noble was a Scottish whip from 1960 and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1961. He was Secretary of State for Scotland from 1962 to 1964 in the governments of Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home, taking over from John Maclay after the Night of the Long Knives. He returned to government as President of the Board of Trade in 1970 and as Minister for Trade from 1970 to 1972 under Edward Heath.

On 3 May 1974 Noble was elevated to the peerage as Baron Glenkinglas, of Cairndow in the County of Argyll.

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Torrance, David, The Scottish Secretaries (Birlinn 2006)

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Sir Duncan McCallum
Member of Parliament for Argyll
1958–February 1974
Succeeded by
Iain Maccormick
Political offices
Preceded by
John Maclay
Secretary of State for Scotland
1962–1964
Succeeded by
William Ross
Preceded by
Roy Mason
President of the Board of Trade
Jun–Oct 1970
Succeeded by
John Davies
(Secretary of State for Trade and Industry)