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Alan Beith

The Right Honourable
The Lord Beith
PC
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Chairman of the Liaison Committee
In office
21 July 2010 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by Alan Williams
Succeeded by Andrew Tyrie
Lib Dem Shadow Leader of the Commons
In office
29 August 1999 – 15 May 2003
Leader Charles Kennedy
Preceded by Charles Kennedy
Succeeded by Paul Tyler
Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats
In office
11 April 1992 – 12 February 2003
Leader Paddy Ashdown
Charles Kennedy
Preceded by Russell Johnston
Succeeded by Ming Campbell
Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesman
In office
12 July 1994 – 29 August 1999
Leader Charles Kennedy
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Simon Hughes
Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party
In office
1985 – 16 July 1988
Leader David Steel
Preceded by John Pardoe (from 1979)
Succeeded by Russell Johnston (Lib Dems)
Liberal Chief Whip in the Commons
In office
1977–1985
Leader David Steel
Preceded by Cyril Smith
Succeeded by David Alton
Member of Parliament
for Berwick-upon-Tweed
In office
8 November 1973 – 30 March 2015
Preceded by Viscount Lambton
Succeeded by Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Personal details
Born (1943-04-20) 20 April 1943 (age 73)
Poynton, Cheshire
Nationality  United Kingdom
Political party Liberal (before 1988)
Liberal Democrats (1988–present)
Spouse(s) Barbara Ward (1965–1998)
Diana, Baroness Maddock (2001–present)
Children 1 daughter
1 son
Alma mater Nuffield College, Oxford
Religion Methodism
Website Official website

Alan James Beith, Baron Beith, PC (born 20 April 1943) is a British politician who represented the constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed as its Member of Parliament (MP) from 1973 to 2015.

From 1992 to 2003 he was Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats and, by 2015, Beith was the longest-serving member of his party sitting in the House of Commons and the last Liberal Democrat//Liberal MP to have experience of Parliament from the 1970s.

Beith was elevated as a Life Peer in the 2015 Dissolution Honours List and took his title and a seat on the House of Lords Opposition benches on 23 November 2015.

The son of John Beith, of Scottish extraction, he was born in 1943 at Poynton in Cheshire. He was educated at The King's School, Macclesfield before going up to Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics graduating in 1964. He then pursued postgraduate studies at Nuffield College receiving a Bachelor of Letters (BLitt) degree.


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