Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood
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Life peerage 26 September 1958 – 3 January 1994 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Katharine Tennant 15 January 1903 Mayfair, London, England |
Died | 3 January 1994 Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland | (aged 90)
Political party | Conservative (Unionist until 1965) |
Spouse | |
Parent(s) | Sir Charles Tennant, 1st Baronet Marguerite Miles |
Occupation | Politician |
Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood,
Early life
Born Katharine Tennant in 1903, she was the daughter of the
Tennant was educated at home by
Marriage
On 2 April 1934, Tennant married
Politics
Elliot then became involved in Conservative affairs, wrote speeches for, and campaigned in elections for, her husband, as well as promoting his enactment of the
In a 1958 episode of the BBC television programme The Brains Trust she described herself as an "unrepentant defender of votes for women".[3]
Following the death of her husband in 1958, Elliot took over from him as chair of the family auctioneering firm and stood in his place as parliamentary candidate of Glasgow Kelvingrove, but lost by a narrow margin of votes to the Labour candidate Mary McAlister in the 1958 Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election.
House of Lords
In 1958, Elliot was promoted as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Death
At the
Arms
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Her motto ‘Velis plenis’ (‘With full sails’) alludes to her father’s crest of a sail and the family motto, ‘God fills my sails’. The wand azure was a charge used by many Elliots, the holly leaf represented the Elliots of Hollybush near Galashiels (his branch of the family), and the portcullis signifies his forty-year parliamentary career. She was granted her own supporters, a black-faced ram Proper horned Gules, and a horse Argent, symbolising her love of rural life.[7]
Footnotes
- ^ The Scotsman, 18 November 1989
- ^ CWO. "Past CWO Chairmen". Conservative Women's Organisation. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
- ^ BBC Archive [@bbcarchive] (20 July 2018). "#OnThisDay 1958: "Are British women any better off than Swiss women?" The Brains Trust considered what getting the vote had done for British women" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ "No. 41404". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1958. p. 3521.
- ^ "No. 41507". The London Gazette. 29 September 1958. p. 5887.
- ^ House of Lords Debates 4 Nov 1958, col 161.
- ^ a b Duncan Sutherland. "Arms and the Woman" (PDF). The Heraldry Society. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
References
- Linklater, Magnus (2004). "Elliot (née Tennant), Katharine, Baroness Elliot of Harwood (1903–1994)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54942. Retrieved 13 September 2007. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)