Jock Bruce-Gardyne

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John (Jock) Bruce-Gardyne, Baron Bruce-Gardyne (12 April 1930 - 15 April 1990) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Bruce-Gardyne was educated at Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and then served for six years in Foreign Service before becoming a journalist. He was a council member of the Bow Group.

At the 1964 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for South Angus. He held the seat until the October 1974 general election, when he lost to Andrew Welsh of the Scottish National Party. Bruce-Gardyne was later elected MP for Knutsford in a 1979 by-election, but was effectively forced out of the House of Commons when the seat was abolished by boundary changes for the 1983 general election. He was a monetarist but also was against the Falklands war and was an independent minded MP. He was succeeded in the new Tatton seat by Neil Hamilton. He was created a life peer as Baron Bruce-Gardyne, of Kirkden in the district of Angus, on 7 October 1983.

He died of a brain tumour at the age of 60.

[edit] References

• Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966, 1979 and 1983 editions
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

[edit] Offices held

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir James Duncan, Bt.	Member of Parliament for South Angus 1964–1974	Succeeded by Andrew Welsh
Preceded by John Davies	Member of Parliament for Knutsford 1979–1983	Succeeded by (constituency abolished)