Thomas Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde

The Right Honourable The Lord Strathclyde PC


Minister of State for Scotland
In office 7 April 1955 – 23 October 1958
Preceded by	The Earl of Home
Succeeded by	The Lord Forbes
Chairman of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board
In office Late 1950s – May 1967
Preceded by	Lord Cooper
Succeeded by	Tom Fraser
Member of Parliament for Glasgow Pollok
In office 30 April 1940 – 26 May 1955
Preceded by	Sir John Gilmour
Succeeded by	John George
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 1955 – 12 July 1985
Herediatry Successor	Thomas Galbraith
Personal details
Died	12 July 1985

Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde PC (20 March 1891 – 12 July 1985) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.

He then became a chartered accountant and practised, 1925–70.

Galbraith's political career began in local government where he served as a councillor on Glasgow Corporation from 1933 until 1940. For part of that time he was vice-chair of the Progressive Party. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Pollok from 1940 to 1955, being originally elected at a by-election and then at the 1945, 1950 and 1951 general elections. He served as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland in Winston Churchill's caretaker government from May to July 1945. He was made a peer on 4 May 1955, shortly before the 1955 general election, and served as a Minister of State at the Scottish Office until 1958. By 1964, Strathclyde was serving as chairman of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board.