Jo Grimond

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Joseph Jo Grimond, (born 29th July 1913 - died 24th October 1993)

Jo was born in St Andrews, Fife and after education at Eton College, and Balliol College, Oxford, he became a barrister.

In 1938 he married Laura Bonham-Carter.
After service in WWII, he entered parliament in 1950 as the MP for Orkney and Shetland, the constituency which he continued to represent until he retired in 1983, and was replaced by Jim Wallace.

Upon his retirement he was granted a life peerage, as Baron Grimond, of Firth, Orkney. His Memoirs were published in 1979 by Heinemann of London. Grimond was also the author of a number of books on politics.