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Thomas Galloway Dunlop Galbraith

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Data Last Updated: 16 February 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Also Known As

Thomas Galbraith

Born: 10 March 1917

Died: 2 January 1982

Knighted - 31 December 1981

husband of Simone du Roy de Blicquy

son of Thomas Dunlop Galbraith

father of Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith

Education

Aytoun House, Glasgow

Christ Church, Oxford

Wellington College

Appointments

Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (Government Whip)	1951	1954
Comptroller of HM Household (Government Whip)	1954	1955
Treasurer of HM Household and Government Deputy Chief Whip	1955	1957
Civil Lord of the Admiralty	1957	October 1959
Under Secretary of State for Scotland	October 1959	November 1962
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Transport	May 1963	October 1964

Elections fought

5 July 1945	Paisley	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,826	32.74
3 October 1945	Edinburgh East	Conservative & Unionist Party	9,665	38.43
25 November 1948	Glasgow Hillhead	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,060	68.40
23 February 1950	Glasgow Hillhead	Conservative & Unionist Party	23,181	60.73
25 October 1951	Glasgow Hillhead	Conservative & Unionist Party	24,654	64.86
26 May 1955	Glasgow Hillhead	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,106	67.57
8 October 1959	Glasgow Hillhead	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,094	68.32
15 October 1964	Glasgow Hillhead	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,993	63.97
31 March 1966	Glasgow Hillhead	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,899	62.88
18 June 1970	Glasgow Hillhead	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,674	61.31
28 February 1974	Glasgow Hillhead	Conservative & Unionist Party	14,378	43.94
10 October 1974	Glasgow Hillhead	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,203	37.09
3 May 1979	Glasgow Hillhead	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,368	41.04
2 January 1982 Death of Hon Sir Thomas Galbraith.