Grimond, Lord (1913-1993), was a British politician who led the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967 and again from May 1976 to July 1976. As Jo Grimond, he was elected member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland in 1950. He was Liberal whip, the party official responsible for getting members of the party to work together, from 1950 to 1956. In 1961, he became a privy councilor, part of an honorary council appointed by the British monarch. He became a life peer, with the title Baron Grimond, in July 1983.
Joseph Grimond was born on July 29, 1913, at St. Andrews in Fife Region, Scotland. He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford University, where he took first class honors in politics, philosophy, and economics. He qualified as a barrister (a lawyer authorized to argue cases in the United Kingdom’s higher courts) in 1937. After serving with the Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in World War II (1939-1945), he worked with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Association in postwar reconstruction. He was secretary to the National Trust for Scotland until 1949. Grimond died in the Orkney Islands on Oct. 24, 1993.
