Hugh Lucas-Tooth
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Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Munro-Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet, of Bught, County Inverness (13 January 1903 – 18 November 1985), born and baptized
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 Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Warrand and known as Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet, from 1920 to 1965, was a Scottish
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 British
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 Conservative
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 politician. Elected to parliament in 1924 at the age of 21, he was the first British MP to be born in the 20th Century.

Family

Warrand's father was Hugh Munro Warrand (8 July 1870 - 11 June 1935, married 24 April 1901), Major in the 3rd Battalion of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
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, and son of Alexander John Cruikshank Warrand of Bught
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, Inverness-shire
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. Warrand's mother Beatrice Maude Lucas Lucas-Tooth (died 25 June 1944) was a daughter of Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet. Warrand's great-grandfather was Robert Tooth
Robert Tooth
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, a prominent Australian businessman. His brother Selwyn John Power Warrand (6 February 1904 - 24 May 1941), who married 25 March 1933 to Frena Lingen Crace, daughter of Everard Crace, from Canberra
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, Australian Capital Territory
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, by whom he had two children, was a Commander
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 in the service of the Royal Navy
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, fought in World War II
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 and was killed in action
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 on board of HMS Hood (51)
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 and his widow remarried in 1947 Henry Richard Charles Humphries. His sister Beatrice Helen Fitzhardinge Warrand (born 1908), married on 27 September 1941 another World War II veteran, Lieutenant Colonel Lyndall Fownes Urwick, Military Cross
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, Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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, son of Sir Henry Urwick of Malvern
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, Worcestershire
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, Justice of the Peace
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.

Biography

Warrand was educated at Eton College
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, Eton
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, Berkshire
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, and Balliol College
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, University of Oxford
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, Oxford
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, Oxfordshire
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, in 1924 with a Bachelor of Arts
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 degree. He adopted the legally changed name Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Lucas-Tooth of Teanich by Royal Licence in 1920 when he gained the recreated baronet
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cy of his maternal grandfather, the first baronet, whose three sons had died in World War I
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, being created 1st Baronet Lucas-Tooth, of Bught, County Inverness
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, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 1 December 1920, with special remainder to the heirs male of the body of his mother.

Lucas-Tooth was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1924 general election as Conservative
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 Member of Parliament
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 for the Isle of Ely
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 from October 1924 to May 1929. Aged 21, he became the youngest MP, known as "Baby of the House
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". He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary
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 to Arthur Samuel, Secretary for Overseas Trade
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. Lucas-Tooth was called to the bar
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 in 1933 at Lincoln's Inn
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 entitled to practice as a barrister
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. He also became a Lieutenant Colonel in the service of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.

He was defeated in the 1929 general election
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 by the Liberal
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 candidate, James A. de Rothschild
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. Lucas-Tooth stood again for parliament in the 1945 general election
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 for Hendon South
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, and was elected, taking his seat in July 1945. He retained the seat in subsequent general elections until 1970 and was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
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 between February 1952 and December 1955.

On 3 February 1965, Lucas-Tooth legally changed his name once again by Deed Poll
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 to Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Munro-Lucas-Tooth of Teanich, to reflect the Scottish
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 laird
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ship Munro
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 of Teaninich.

He retired from Parliament at the 1970 general election
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.

Marriage and issue

He married on 10 September 1925 Laetitia Florence Findlay (died 5 July 1978), daughter of Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet, of Aberlour, and Harriet Jane Backhouse, and had three children:
  • Laetitia Helen Lucas-Tooth (born 30 December 1926), Bachelor
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     of Philosophy
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    , Master of Arts
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     and Doctor of Divinity
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    , in 2003 living at L'Aiguillon, Rue des Cotils, Grouville
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    , Jersey
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    , married 12 July 1947 Sir Michael Bernard Grenville Oppenheimer, 3rd Baronet; their 3rd daughter Xanthe Jennifer Grenville Oppenheimer married 10 September 1977 Hon. Ivo Adam Rex Mosley (born 14 April 1951), second son of Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale and first wife Rosemary Laura Salmond, and had issue...
  • Jennifer Mary Lucas-Tooth (born 17 May 1929), in 2003 living at Brimpton Lodge, Brimpton
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    , Reading
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    , Berkshire
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    , married 1 October 1949 John Desmond Henderson, Major in the service of the Scots Guards
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    , son of John Kenneth Henderson of The Moot
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    , Downton
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    , Wiltshire
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    , and had three children
  • Sir Hugh John Lucas-Tooth, 2nd Baronet, of Bught, County Inverness (born 20 August 1932), educated at Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, and at Balliol College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Lieutenant
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     in the service of the Scots Guards, succeeded his father in 1985, in 2003 living at Parsonage Farm, East Hagbourne
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    , Oxfordshire, married 29 June 1955 Hon. Caroline Poole or Hon. Caroline Poole Poole (born 2 September 1934), daughter of Oliver Brian Sanderson Poole, 1st Baron Poole
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     and Betty Margaret Gilkison, and had three daughter, for what the title will go to his first cousin, son of his father's brother and heir to the body of his paternal grandmother:
    • Caroline Maria Lucas-Tooth (born 12 May 1956), who usually goes by her middle name Maria, in 2003 living at 41 Lancaster Road, London
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      , married 19 April 1980 William John Hibbert, son of Sir Reginald Alfred Hibbert, Knight Grand Cross
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       of the Order of St Michael and St George
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      , and has two daughters
    • Lucinda Kate Lucas-Tooth (born 20 March 1958), who usually goes by her middle name Kate, married 1980 David Mark Ackroyd, son of L. M. Ackroyd, and has one son and two daughters
    • Belinda Alice Lucas-Tooth (born 22 December 1966), who usually goes by her middle name Alice, married firstly in 1990 and divorced in 1996 Aubrey Duarte Simpson-Orlebar, son of Sir Michael Keith Orlebar Simpson-Orlebar, Knight Commander
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       of the Order of St Michael and St George, without issue, and married secondly in 2001 Jewish
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       Anthony Ross Dworkin, son of Professor
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       Ronald Myles Dworkin
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       from New York
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      , New York County, New York
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      , and has one son

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