Word: lanark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commons from 1931 to 1945 as M.P. for South Lanark, was re-elected in 1950 but went to the Lords after succeeding to the 14th earldom of Home...
...Christ Church,* where he scraped by with a third in history. He was interested in the family's "political blood"-Britain's great reforming Prime Minister Earl Grey was his paternal great-grandfather -and was elected to Parliament in 1931 from the depressed mining district of South Lanark. "It seemed rather stodgy just to stay at home and live on your money and look after your estates," he explains. "It would have been a lot better for the estates if I had, and you might think it would have been better for foreign policy...