Tributes paid to ‘true gentleman’ Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
by Rebecca McCurdy
Nov 29, 2023
2 minutes
Tributes have been paid to “distinguished” Conservative peer Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, who has died aged 81.
Lord Douglas-Hamilton served as an MP, MSP and a Scotland Office minister, and joined the House of Lords in 1997.
Born in 1942, he entered politics in 1972 as a councillor in Edinburgh.
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