(1943-04-20) 20 April 1943 (age 81) Poynton, Cheshire, England
Political party
Liberal (before 1988) Liberal Democrats (1988–present)
Spouses
Barbara Ward
(m. 1965; died 1998)
Diana, Baroness Maddock
(m. 2001; died 2020)
Children
2
Alma mater
Balliol College, Oxford Nuffield College, Oxford
Website
Official website
Alan James Beith, Baron Beith, PC (born 20 April 1943) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented Berwick-upon-Tweed as its Member of Parliament (MP) from 1973 to 2015.[1][2]
From 1992 to 2003 he was Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats. By 2015 he was the longest-serving member of his party's House of Commons delegation, and was the last Liberal Democrat MP to have experience of Parliament in the 1970s.
Beith was elevated as a life peer in the 2015 Dissolution Honours List[3] and took his title and a seat on the House of Lords Opposition benches on 23 November 2015.[4]
^"Mr Alan Beith". Hansard. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
^"Parliamentary career for Lord Beith - MPs and Lords". UK Parliament. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
^"Dissolution Peerages 2015". Gov.uk. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
^"House of Lords Official Report 23 November 2015" (PDF). parliament.uk. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 November 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
Alan James Beith, Baron Beith, PC (born 20 April 1943) is a British Liberal Democrat politician who represented Berwick-upon-Tweed as its Member of Parliament...
a vituperative attack on Ashdown in a letter written by Alex Carlile, a Beith-supporting MP. At the close of nominations on the 24 June 1988, the following...
and Parliament; this caused a by-election for his seat which was won by AlanBeith for the Liberal Party. Shortly after, the name Jellicoe emerged in connection...
Beckett (Labour) Sir AlanBeith (Liberal Democrat) John Bercow (Conservative) Patrick Cormack (Conservative) Parmjit Dhanda (Labour) Sir Alan Haselhurst (Deputy...
became an economics researcher for the Liberal Democrats, principally to AlanBeith, the party's then-Treasury spokesman, whilst studying at Birkbeck College...
Democrats In office 9 August 1999 – 7 January 2006 Deputy Menzies Campbell AlanBeith President The Baroness Maddock The Lord Dholakia Simon Hughes Preceded...
Ashton, John Biggs-Davison, Emma Nicholson, Ivor Richard 30 17 8 May 1980 AlanBeith, John Grugeon, Stanley Orme, Claire Palley 31 18 15 May 1980 Hugh Clegg...
October 1981 Bill Pitt June 1983 1985 David Penhaligon AlanBeith January 1987 June 1987 AlanBeith Russell Johnston Liberal Democrats March 1988 David Steel...
been the local MP since 2015. From 1973 until 2015, Rothbury's MP was AlanBeith, a member of the Liberal Democrats since 1988 and the Liberal Party prior...
office 12 February 2003 – 2 March 2006 Leader Charles Kennedy Preceded by AlanBeith Succeeded by Vince Cable Liberal Democrats Spokesperson for Defence In...
Chief Whip In office 1985 – 11 June 1987 Leader David Steel Preceded by AlanBeith Succeeded by Jim Wallace Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal Incumbent...
1976 – 3 May 1979 Leader David Steel Preceded by Donald Wade Succeeded by AlanBeith Liberal Spokesperson for the Treasury In office June 1970 – 3 May 1979...
Kennedy Robert Maclennan The Baroness Maddock Deputy Russell Johnston AlanBeith Preceded by David Steel (Liberal) Robert Maclennan (SDP) Succeeded by...
Durham, later Newcastle University) Sue Beardsmore - television presenter AlanBeith - politician Jean Benedetti - biographer, translator, director and dramatist...
Select Committee In office 19 June 2015 – 30 May 2024 Preceded by Sir AlanBeith Succeeded by TBC Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for London, Local...
April 1992 President of the Scottish Liberal Democrats Ashdown 2 Sir AlanBeith (1943–) Berwick-upon-Tweed 13 April 1992 12 February 2003 Liberal Democrat...
office 9 August 1999 – 7 June 2001 Leader Charles Kennedy Preceded by AlanBeith Succeeded by Mark Oaten Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats In office...
had been "a great success", and Farage agreed to continue as party leader. Alan Sugar, a Labour peer in the House of Lords, also announced his resignation...
Welsh Liberal Democrats). London AMs: Stephen Knight AM. Former MPs: Sir AlanBeith (former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats), Duncan Hames, Martin...
(PR). In addition to Ashdown, Liberal Democrat MPs Menzies Campbell and AlanBeith were earmarked for places in the cabinet if a Labour-Lib Dem coalition...
Children, Schools and Families, and Strictly Come Dancing contestant AlanBeith, former British Liberal Democrat MP Tony Benn, former British Labour MP...
(1976–1979) AlanBeith (1985–1988) President List Basil Goldstone Gruffydd Evans Michael Steed Richard Holme Viv Bingham John Griffiths Geoff Tordoff Alan Watson...
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