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The Right Honourable
The Lord Steel of Aikwood
KT KBE PC
Official portrait, 2020
Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
In office 12 May 1999 – 7 May 2003
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Deputy
Patricia Ferguson
George Reid
Murray Tosh
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
George Reid
Leader of the Liberal Democrats
In office 3 March 1988 – 16 July 1988
Serving with Robert Maclennan
Preceded by
Himself (Lib.Tooltip Liberal Party (UK))
Robert Maclennan (SDPTooltip Social Democratic Party (UK))
Succeeded by
Paddy Ashdown
Leader of the Liberal Party
In office 7 July 1976 – 16 July 1988
Deputy
John Pardoe (1976–1979)
Alan Beith (1985–1988)
President
List
Basil Goldstone
Gruffydd Evans
Michael Steed
Richard Holme
Viv Bingham
John Griffiths
Geoff Tordoff
Alan Watson
David Penhaligon
Des Wilson
Adrian Slade
Preceded by
Jo Grimond (acting)
Succeeded by
Paddy Ashdown (Leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats)
Chief Whip of the Liberal Party
In office 18 June 1970 – 7 July 1976
Leader
Jeremy Thorpe
Jo Grimond
Preceded by
Eric Lubbock
Succeeded by
Cyril Smith
Parliamentary offices
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage 6 June 1997 – 27 March 2020
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Lothians (1 of 7 Regional MSPs)
In office 6 May 1999 – 31 March 2003
Member of Parliament for Tweeddale, Ettrick, and Lauderdale Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Peebles (1965–1983)
In office 25 March 1965 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by
Charles Donaldson
Succeeded by
Michael Moore
Personal details
Born
David Martin Scott Steel
(1938-03-31) 31 March 1938 (age 86) Kirkcaldy, Scotland
Political party
Independent (since 2020)
Other political affiliations
Liberal Democrats (1988–2020)
Liberal (until 1988)
Spouse
Judith MacGregor
(m. 1962)
Children
3
Parent
David Steel
Alma mater
University of Edinburgh
Signature
David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, KT, KBE, PC (born 31 March 1938) is a retired Scottish politician.[1] Elected as Member of Parliament for Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Peebles, followed by Tweeddale, Ettrick, and Lauderdale, he served as the final leader of the Liberal Party, from 1976 to 1988. His tenure spanned the duration of the alliance with the Social Democratic Party, which began in 1981 and concluded with the formation of the Liberal Democrats in 1988.[1]
Steel served as a Member of the UK Parliament for 32 years, from 1965 to 1997, and as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2003, during which time he was the parliament's Presiding Officer. He was a member of the House of Lords as a life peer from 1997 to 2020. Steel resigned from the House of Lords after the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse accused him of an "abdication of responsibility" over his failure to investigate allegations of child sex abuse against the former Liberal MP Sir Cyril Smith.[2]
^ ab"Steel of Aikwood, Baron, (David Martin Scott Steel) (born 31 March 1938)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u36053. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
^"David Steel quits Lib Dems after child abuse inquiry report". The Guardian. 25 February 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
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