Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood
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The Right Honourable The Baroness Elliot of Harwood DBE |
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Katharine Tennant 15 January 1903 Mayfair, London, England |
| Died | 3 January 1994 (aged 90) Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Walter Elliot (1888-1958) (m. 1934) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood DBE (née Tennant; 15 January 1903 – 3 January 1994) was British public servant and politician.
Born Katharine Tennant in 1903, she was the daughter of the Scottish industrialist and politician, Sir Charles Tennant, Bt. (then seventy-nine years old) and his second wife, Marguerite Miles, daughter of Colonel Charles William Miles, MP and was cousin of Sir Philip Miles . As a child, she played in the nursery of 10, Downing Street, the home of her much older half-sister, Margot Asquith, the wife of then Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith.
Tennant was educated at home by governesses, then at Abbot's Hill School and finally in Paris. She was presented at court to George V as a debutante but later stated 'I was more interested in politics than parties' and grew up with strong Liberal ideals. Later studying at the London School of Economics, she was also an accomplished violinist, organist, equestrienne, golfer and fluent in French.
On 2 April 1934, Tennant married Walter Elliott, a Conservative MP and Minister for Agriculture. Her husband was the son of a auctioneer and she became an expert in trading farm animals and agricultural equipment. A donation of one shilling was also given by almost every farmer in Britain towards a wedding present, from which she purchased a tractor.
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