The Right Honourable Sir Ian Hedworth John Little Gilmour, 3rd Bt., Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, PC (b. 8 July 1926), was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. On 10 July 1951, he married Caroline Margaret Montagu-Douglas-Scott, the youngest daughter of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch, and they have five children together. He held the safe Conservative seat of Chesham and Amersham. He served in Edward Heath's Cabinet as Defence Secretary and under Margaret Thatcher as Lord Privy Seal from 1979 until the September 1981 Cabinet reshuffle. His job was to be the chief Government spokesman in the House of Commons for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs working for the Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, who sat in the House of Lords. He did not have good relations with Thatcher, and was sacked in 1981. In 1989, he was considered by discontented backbenchers as a possible future leader. However, he did not participate in frontline British politics again, and was given a life peerage in 1992. The Right Honourable (abbreviated The Rt Hon. ... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Conservative Party is the largest political party on the right-of-centre in the United Kingdom. ... July 10 is the 191st day (192nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 174 days remaining. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... The Most Noble Sir Walter John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch, 10th Duke of Queensberry KT PC (December 30, 1894–October 4, 1973) was the son of John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 7th Duke of Buccleuch. ... The Right Honourable Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG , MBE (July 9, 1916 – July 17, 2005), soldier and politician, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. ... In the Politics of the United Kingdom, the Cabinet is a formal body comprised of government officials chosen by the kp. ... The Secretary of State for Defence is the senior United Kingdom government minister in charge of the Ministry of Defence. ... The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), is a British politician. ... The Lord Privy Seal or Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal is one of the traditional sinecure offices in the British Cabinet. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... British House of Commons Canadian House of Commons In some bicameral parliaments of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. ... The title of Foreign Secretary has been traditionally used to refer to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. ... The Right Honourable Sir Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, KG , GCMG , CH , MC , PC , JP , DL (born June 6, 1919), is a British Conservative politician and served as British Foreign Secretary between 1979 and 1982 and as Secretary-General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In the United Kingdom, Life Peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles may not be inherited (those whose titles are inheritable are known as hereditary peers). ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

Gilmour was known for writing coherently from the One Nation perspective of the Conservative Party, in opposition to Thatcherism; in particular in his books Dancing with Dogma and Whatever Happened to the Tories. One Nation, One Nation Conservatism, or Tory Democracy is a term used in political debate in the United Kingdom and sometimes Canada to refer to the moderate wing of the Conservative Party, and the Red Tory wing of the original Progressive Conservative Party in Canada who like to describe themselves... Thatcherism is the system of political thought attributed to the governments of Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. ...