VALLANCE OF TUMMEL, Rt Hon Baroness (Elizabeth Mary nee MacGONNIGILL) 1945-2020

[Richard R]

From the Times of 16 July 2020: VALLANCE Elizabeth Mary (nee MacGonnigill); The Lady Vallance of Tummel passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by her loving family, on Thursday 9th July 2020. She contributed so much, in so many ways, and she will never be forgotten. She is survived by her husband Iain, and her two children, Rachel and Edmund.

She was d of William Henderson McGONNIGILL (1916-2000) and Hon Jean Brown KIRKWOOD (1917-91) d of 1st Baron KIRKWOOD (1872-1955). She m 1967 the LP Baron VALLANCE OF TUMMEL (b 1943) s of Edmund Thomas VALLANCE (1907-99) by his 1938 m (ref 685/4 1118 St Giles) to Janet Wright Bell Ross DAVIDSON (1908-95), and had a son and a dau as above.

[Richard R]

Obit from the Times of 19 Oct 2020:
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Lady Vallance of Tummel obituary
Academic, charity leader and author of two books about female politicians
Elizabeth Vallance had a family history full of paradoxes. On her maternal side her grandfather, David Kirkwood, was a militant Red Clydeside trade unionist, the last person to be imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle during the First World War for sticking steadfastly to his pacifist views, and ultimately a member of the House of Lords. By contrast, her paternal grandfather, William McGonnigill, left Scotland aged 16 to become a cavalryman, defending the Khyber Pass against the Pashtuns and becoming pipe major of the Gordon Highlanders during the First World War, leading his regiment over the trenches, unarmed except for his bagpipes
....She was born Elizabeth Mary McGonnigill in 1945 to William McGonnigill, a company director, and Jean Kirkwood, a journalist...
Lady Vallance of Tummel, lecturer and campaigner, was born on April 8, 1945. She died of cancer on July 9, 2020, aged 75
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lady-vallance-of-tummel-obituary-sskcj9hp6