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  Jo Grimond | DBpedia.org
Joseph "Jo" Grimond, Baron Grimond (29 July 1913 – 24 October 1993) was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967 and again briefly in 1976.
Grimond was born in St Andrews in Fife and was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.
Among other posts, Grimond was a barrister and publisher in the 1930s, an army major during World War II, Secretary of the National Trust for Scotland from 1947 to 1949, and held the Chancellorships of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Kent.
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  Jo Grimond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grimond was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, became a barrister, and in 1938 married Laura Bonham-Carter, a granddaughter of Herbert Henry Asquith.
Among other posts, Grimond was a barrister and publisher in the 1930s, an army major during World War II, Secretary of the National Trust for Scotland from 1947 to 1949, and held the Chancellorships of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Kent.
John Grimond, a foreign editor of The Economist who was married 1973 to Katherine "Kate" Fleming, elder daughter of Peter Fleming and the actress Celia Johnson, and had three children with her.
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 Jo Grimond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Joseph (Jo) Grimond (July 29, 1913 - October 24, 1993) was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967.
Grimond was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, became a barrister, and in 1938 married Laura Bonham-Carter, a granddaughter of Herbert Asquith.
Among other posts, Grimond was a barrister and publisher in the 1930s, an army Major during World War II,Secretary of the National Trust for Scotland from 1947 to 1949, and held the Chancellorships of the University of Edinburgh and the University of Kent.
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 Jo Grimond   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Joseph (Jo) Grimond, Baron Grimond of Orkney (July 29, 1913 - October 24, 1993) was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967 and again briefly in 1976.
Grimond was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, became a barrister, and in 1938 married Laura Bonham-Carter, a granddaughterof Herbert Asquith.
Jo Grimond was survived by his widow Laura (the wife then widow of a Life Peer, the sister of another Life Peer, and thedaughter of a Life Peeress, as well as the great-granddaughter of a hereditary peer of first creation).
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 Liberal Democrat History Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Grimond was imbued with enthusiasm and curiosity about politics, reflected in his involvement in the school’s Political Society, of which in 1932 he became President.
Grimond, however, rejected any thought that the Liberal Party should be satisfied with a role as a ‘brains trust standing on the sidelines of politics shouting advice to Tories and Socialists alike’.
Grimond could do what no Liberal had done for many years: appeal to the younger generation of voters, who, as the first products of the Butler Education Act and of post-war universities and polytechnics, were not necessarily committed to the apparently class-dominated major parties.
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 Jo Grimond - new and used books
1979 Heinemann When Jo Grimond was Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party (1956-1967) and much in the public eye, he impressed his fellow countrymen as an honest and engaging man with original views, wisdom and powers of persuasion.
Jo Grimond was one of the most respected politicians of his time, he was Leader of the British Liberal Party from 1956 - 1967, as Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland, he represented the families of these islands without a break for nearly thirty years.
When Jo Grimond was Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party (1956-67), he impressed his fellow countrymen as an honest and engaging man with original views, wisdom and powers of persuasion.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Jo Grimond
Joseph (Jo) Grimond, Baron Grimond (July 29, 1913 - October 24, 1993) was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967 and again briefly in 1976.Grimond was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, became a barrister, and in 1938 married Laura Bonham-Carter, a granddaughter of Herbert Asquith.
After service in World War II, he entered Parliament in the 1950 general election as Liberal member for Orkney and Shetland, continuing to represent the constituency until he retired from politics in 1983.
He was a life-long champion of Scottish devolution within the UK, and although he was often wary of the bureaucracy of theEuropean Economic Community (EEC), was an early advocate of the EEC.
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 Orkney Book Reviews - Jo Grimond
The opening paragraphs set the national scene into which Jo Grimond was born in 1913.
Jo was one of the first senior politicians to recognise the importance of television as a campaigning medium.
Jo was an advocate for a Highlands and Islands Development Board with appropriate finance, and also that the UK should become a member of the Common Market – all before these were even considered by the two major parties.
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 BBC News | LIBERAL DEMOCRATS | The man who 'saved' the Liberals
Grimond had succeeded in the meantime in recruiting a new wealth of talent.
Grimond died in 1993 but there is little doubt that the Liberal revival of the 1960s and 1970s was his greatest political legacy.
"Grimond was for political realignment, was arguing for a non doctrinaire, non-socialist party in the centre-left," he said.
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 Jo Grimond: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Grimond led the party through a difficult period in the late 1950s (1950s: The decade from 1950 to 1959) and early 1960s (1960s: The decade from 1960 to 1969).
It was during his leadership that the first post-war Liberal revival took place- under Grimond the Liberals doubled their seats and won historic by-elections in Torrington (Torrington: great torrington (generally abbreviated to torrington, though it should be noted that...
John Grimond, a foreign editor of The Economist (The Economist: the economist is a weekly news and international affairs publication of the economist...
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 Encyclopedia: Jo Grimond
David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood KT PC KBE (born March 31, 1938) is a British and Scottish politician and a Liberal Democrat member of the UK House of Lords.
The Right Honourable David Martin Scott Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, KT, KBE, PC (born 31 March 1938) is a British and Scottish politician and a Liberal Democrat member of the UK House of Lords.
Grimond led the party through a difficult period in the late 1950s and early
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 Guardian | Richard Wainwright
Sometimes, particularly in the case of Jo Grimond, leader from 1956 to 1967, he took the high-flown generalities about the party and its organisation, and translated them into the detail of workable structures that the somewhat anarchic party activists would accept and operate.
A key aspect of such practicality was his role in the five-strong organising committee, chaired by Frank Byers, which, in the early 1960s, largely sidetracked the party's cumbersome committee structure with its all-embracing remit to do whatever was necessary "to strengthen the impact of Liberalism upon the electorate".
Following a Jo performance, there would usually be a short silence before Richard would gently ask, "So what do we do with this idea?" Bit by bit, with Richard's prompting, a workable project would then often emerge.
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 Spectator, The: Jo's influential children
The 'Jo' was a tribute to modern communications, for previously the papers had called him 'Joseph'.
But Grimond told the 1965 assembly that `our teeth are in the real meat' (often incorrectly rendered, though not by Mr McManus, as `the red meat').
Suppose Mr Grimond - without embracing the attitudes of M. Poujade, or even of Mr Martell - had laid down that the object of the Liberals was to replace, not the Labour Party, but the Conservatives.
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 Welcome to the Conservative Party Shop in association with Politico's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jo Grimond, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 - 1967, was a key player in British politics for over four decades.
On his death in 1993, Paddy Ashdown paid tribute to Grimond as a "lion of the liberal cause".
He explores Grimond's ideas, politics and family environment to shed light on his life and the apparent contradictions in his thought.
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 Jo Grimond and the 1966 General Election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At the 1966 election I was in charge of the HQ end of Jo’s Leader’s tours.
We had hired a light ‘plane and Jo’s first excursion was to the west country.
Jo then said, "this demands action" got out of the car himself and approached the sole remaining inhabitant of Cullompton quietly sitting on his doorstep, and demanded where he was due to lunch.
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 Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unfortunately, the party was hampered by organisational difficulties and progress was slow, with a loss of votes and seats under Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
As the MP for Orpington, he was appointed Chief Whip by Jo Grimond in 1963, a post he held until 1970.
When the party leader Jo Grimond resigned in 1967 Eric Lubbock was one of the three Liberal MPs who stood for the position.
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 wendie jo sperber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jo Grimond Joseph (Jo) Grimond (July 29, 1913 - October 24, 1993) was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967.
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Jo Jo Jo can mean: A four-foot long wooden staff, used in some Japanese martial arts.
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 New Statesman - Life of the party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jo never told me that in 1950 - his first year in parliament - he had helped lead opposition to the Attlee government's craven attempt, under pressure from South Africa, to prevent Seretse Khama (later president of Botswana) from returning to his native Bechuanaland after marrying an Englishwoman.
In the early 1950s, he argued for Scottish self-government, European integration, the removal of trade restrictions and the establishment of a press council, and later spoke in favour of ITV and the possibility of "pay as you view".
(Jo's objection was that he did not want anyone with bees in his bonnet because he had enough of his own.) To the end, he operated in his constituency out of an upstairs room in the house of the aunt of the local party secretary.
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 Wikipedia: The Liberal Party (UK)
In 1957 this total fell to five when one of their MPs died and the subsequent by-election was lost the Labour Party, who fielded the former Liberal Deputy Leader Megan Lloyd George as their candidate.
Under the leadership of Jo Grimond (1956-67) the party increased its vote and managed to survive without Tory help.
The upward trend continued under Jeremy Thorpe, but the party lost ground again in 1979, the first election under new leader David Steel, as Margaret Thatcher swept all before her.
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 Megan Rowe: Versions for "Orcadian Politics Notes"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The famous Liberal leader Jo Grimond won the seat and held it for 33 years, when he stepped down to enter the House of Lords.
Grimond contributed greatly to the re-emergence of the Liberals in Scotland.
Grimond’s successor, Jim Wallace was elected to Westminster in 1983, where he was a huge advocate of Scottish devolution.
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 Shetland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
After coming second in 1945, Jo Grimond won Orkney and Shetland in 1950 and held it until his retirement in 1983.
Mr Grimond was Liberal leader from 1956 to 1967 and was interim leader in 1976 when Jeremy Thorpe was forced to resign in bizarre circumstances.
Mr Grimond was never seriously threatened with majorities of 2,532 in 1970, 7,305 in February 1974, 6,810 in 1979 (all over the Conservatives), and 6,852 over the SNP in October 1974.
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