Former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats and life peer
The Right Honourable
The Lord Bruce of Bennachie
PC
Official portrait, 2019
Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats
In office 28 January 2014 – 8 May 2015
Leader
Nick Clegg
Preceded by
Simon Hughes
Succeeded by
Jo Swinson (2017)
Chair of the International Development Committee
In office 14 July 2005 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by
Tony Baldry
Succeeded by
Stephen Twigg
Chair of the Liberal Democrats
In office 9 August 1999 – 7 June 2001
Leader
Charles Kennedy
Preceded by
Alan Beith
Succeeded by
Mark Oaten
Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats
In office 3 March 1988 – 18 April 1992
Leader
Steel · Maclennan (Acting) Paddy Ashdown
President
Russell Johnston
Preceded by
Russell Johnston (Scot Lib.Tooltip Scottish Liberal Party)
Succeeded by
Jim Wallace
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 October 2015 Life Peerage
Member of Parliament for Gordon
In office 9 June 1983 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by
Constituency established
Succeeded by
Alex Salmond
Personal details
Born
(1944-11-17) 17 November 1944 (age 79) Birkenhead, England
Political party
Liberal Democrats
Spouses
Veronica Wilson
(m. 1969–1992)
Rosemary Vetterlein
(m. 1998)
Children
5
Alma mater
University of St Andrews University of Strathclyde
Malcolm Gray Bruce, Baron Bruce of Bennachie, PC (born 17 November 1944) is a British Liberal Democrat politician.
He was the Member of Parliament for Gordon from 1983 to 2015 and was the chairman of the International Development Select Committee from 2005 to 2015.[1][2]
He was deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats from 28 January 2014. He was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.[3] He was also previously President of the Scottish Liberal Democrats until being succeeded by Councillor Eileen McCartin from 1 January 2016.
^[1] Archived 28 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine
^"International Development Committee – membership – UK Parliament". Parliament.uk. 13 July 2010. Archived from the original on 15 November 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
^"Dissolution Peerages 2015". Gov.uk. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
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