Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir

Priscilla Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, PC ( * January 25, 1915, † March 11, 1978 ) was a politician of the Scottish Unionist Party and the Scottish Conservative Party.

Born as Priscilla Jean Fortescue Thomson, she was a daughter of Brigadier Alan F. Thomson, DSO. She married in 1934 Major Sir Arthur Lindsay Grant 11th Baronet, a soldier in the Grenadier Guards. He fell in 1944 during World War II. In his second marriage she married in 1948 the author and politician John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir.

Although Lady Tweedsmuir ran unsuccessfully in July 1945 at the British House of Wahle in the constituency Aberdeen North, but was elected in 1946 in Aberdeen South and held her seat in the House of Commons until 1966. 1950-53 She was a delegate to the Council of Europe, the 1960-61 delegate of the United Kingdom in the United Nations General Assembly, 1962-64, joint Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State for Scotland, 1970-71 Minister of State for Scotland in the Scottish Office and in 1972-74 at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In 1974 she was Privy Counsellor.

In 1970, she was raised as Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie, of Potterton in the County of Aberdeen as a life peer in the peerage, and thus a member of the House of Lords. There it served 1974-77 as Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees, and in the same period, 1974-77, as Chairman of the Select Committee on European Communities. She was also Deputy Speaker. She died in 1978 at the age of 63 years to cancer.