Sir Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, KBE (usually known as Tam Galbraith) was a Conservative politician. The eldest son and heir of Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde, he was educated at Aytoun House, Glasgow; Wellington College; Christ Church, Oxford and at the University of Glasgow. He served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1939-1946.

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  • Sir Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, KBE (usually known as Tam Galbraith) was a Conservative politician. The eldest son and heir of Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde, he was educated at Aytoun House, Glasgow; Wellington College; Christ Church, Oxford and at the University of Glasgow. He served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1939-1946. He unsuccessfully contested Paisley in July 1945, and Edinburgh East in October 1945 before being elected for Glasgow Hillhead in 1948. He was Assistant Conservative Whip, 1950; a Government Whip from 1951-57; Civil Lord of the Admiralty, 1957-59; Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, 1959-62; and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, 1963-64. He was President of the Scottish Georgian Society from 1970-1980 and was a Member of the Royal Company of Archers. He was knighted in 1982. His death in 1982 triggered the Hillhead by-election that saw the election of Roy Jenkins. His son Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde was subsequently a Conservative junior Minister, Chief Whip in the Lords and Shadow Leader of the House of Lords.
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  • Sir Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith, KBE (usually known as Tam Galbraith) was a Conservative politician. The eldest son and heir of Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde, he was educated at Aytoun House, Glasgow; Wellington College; Christ Church, Oxford and at the University of Glasgow. He served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 1939-1946.
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  • Tam Galbraith
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