Anthony Stodart, Baron Stodart of Leaston
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James Anthony Stodart, Baron Stodart of Leaston
The son of a colonel in the Indian medical service, he took over the family farm at Kingston, North Berwick, East Lothian, after his father died when he was just eighteen years old. Eventually, he farmed more than 800 acres (3.2 km2) at Leaston, near Humbie, East Lothian.
Although he was an active Unionist in his youth, he fell out with the party and joined the Liberal Party, standing as their candidate in Berwick and East Lothian at the 1950 general election.
By the following year, Stodart had returned to the Tory fold and was Unionist candidate for
At the 1959 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh West, which he held until the October 1974 general election, when he was succeeded by fellow Conservative Lord James Douglas-Hamilton.
Stodart served as a junior
After leaving the
His wife Hazel died in 1995. They had no children.
References
- ^ "No. 48630". The London Gazette. 4 June 1981. p. 7603.
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