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Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond, CH, CBE, TD, PC (/ ˈ ɡ r ɪ m ə n d /; 29 July 1913 – 24 October 1993) was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party for eleven years from 1956 to 1967 and again briefly on an interim basis in 1976.. Grimond was a long-term supporter of Scottish home rule; and, during his leadership, he successfully advocated for the Liberal Party to support the ...
Tue 26 Oct 1993 10.50 EDT. Leader of his party for 10 years from 1956, and perhaps the most influential parliamentarian of our time never to have been in government, Jo Grimond, who has died...
8 de mar. de 2024 · Jo Grimond (born July 29, 1913, St. Andrews, Fife, Scot.—died Oct. 24, 1993, Kirkwall, Orkney Islands) was the leader of the British Liberal Party during its resurgence after World War II. Educated at Eton and the University of Oxford, Grimond was called to the bar in 1937.
25 de oct. de 1993 · the hopes of the Grimond era are as dead as the Liberal Conservatism of the Macmillan era . . . for 10 years it has lived in a dream that was never probable and is now probably impossible.''
Grimond died, aged eighty, on 24 October 1993 in Orkney following a stroke. He left a widow, two sons and a daughter. One son had predeceased him.
Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond, CH, CBE, TD, PC (29 July 1913 – 24 October 1993), known as Jo Grimond, was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967 and again briefly on an interim basis in 1976.. Jo Grimond was a long-term supporter of Scottish home rule; and, during his leadership, he successfully argued that the Liberal Party support the abolition of Britain's ...
Joseph (Jo) Grimond was born 100 years ago, on 29 July 1913. As leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967, Grimond made a difference not just to the fortunes of his party but to British politics, helping to end the two-party mould into which Britain had seemed to settle. He made the most substantial contribution to Liberal politics of
