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|honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable |name = The Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope |honorific-suffix = PC |image = Lord of Kirkwood.jpg |office = Chief Whip of the Liberal Democrats |leader = Paddy Ashdown |term_start = 9 April 1992 |term_end = 1 May 1997 |predecessor = Jim Wallace |successor = Paul Tyler |constituency_MP1 = Roxburgh and Berwickshire |term_start1 = 10 June 1983 |term_end1 = 11 April 2005 |predecessor1 = Constituency Established |successor1 = Constituency Abolished |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|04|22|df=yes}} |birth_place = |birthname = |nationality = British |party = Liberal Democrat |otherparty = |spouse = Rosemary Chester |relations = |children = |alma_mater = Heriot-Watt University |profession = }} Archibald Johnstone Kirkwood, Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope, PC (born 22 April 1946) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom. EducationKirkwood was educated at Cranhill School[1] in Cranhill, Glasgow and studied pharmacy at Heriot-Watt University, gaining a BSc in 1971. He became a solicitor in Hawick and Notary public. Parliamentary careerKirkwood was Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Roxburgh and Berwickshire from 1983 until 2005. In 1986 he with two other MPs Simon Hughes MP and Michael Meadowcroft MP and the National League of Young Liberals and other parts of the party produced the booklet Across the Divide Liberal Values on Defence and Disarmament. This was the rally call that defeated the party leadership in the debate over the issue of an independent nuclear deterrent. A Chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Work and Pensions, Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope, is listed in the House of Lords Register of Interests (Session 2006-2007)[2] as the Chairman of the Unum Customer Advisory Panel for which he received payment from Unum. He received additional payments for other work for Unum. Kirkwood visited the US for two conferences on welfare to work (29 October - 5 November 2005). The accommodation was paid for by the Rockefeller Foundation (New York), the Brico Fund (Milwaukee) and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. In May 2006, Unum (then UnumProvident) provided a memorandum to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Work and Pensions which included in clause 24. "At UnumProvident we have a non-medical, enabling model of rehabilitation and we are working with our partners at the UnumProvident Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research at Cardiff University to better understand what places people at risk of long-term or chronic illness." [3] Personal lifeKirkwood was knighted in the 2003 New Year Honours,[4][5] and dubbed by the Queen at the Palace of Holyroodhouse on 3 July 2003.[6] On 13 May 2005 it was announced that he would be created a life peer, and on 10 June 2005 he was created Baron Kirkwood of Kirkhope, of Kirkhope in the Scottish Borders.[7] He married Rosemary Chester on 30 December 1972. They have a son and daughter. References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://wikimapia.org/968288/site-of-Cranhill-school|title=site of Cranhill school - Wikimapia|website=wikimapia.org}} 2. ^https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldreg/prevreg/149.pdf 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmworpen/616/616we37.htm|title=House of Commons - Work and Pensions - Written Evidence|first=The Committee Office, House of|last=Commons|website=www.publications.parliament.uk}} 4. ^{{London Gazette |issue=56797 |date=31 December 2002 |page=1 |supp=y}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2003/new_year_honours_/2615069.stm|title=BBC NEWS - In Depth - 2003 - New Year Honours - Knights bachelor - full list|website=news.bbc.co.uk}} 6. ^{{London Gazette |issue=57030 |date=15 August 2003 |page=10218}} 7. ^{{London Gazette |issue=57675 |date=15 June 2005 |page=7779}} External links
| title = Member of Parliament for Roxburgh and Berwickshire | years = 1983–2005 }}{{s-non | reason = constituency abolished (see Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) }}{{s-ppo}}{{succession box | title = Chief Whip of the Liberal Democrats | years = 1992–1997 | before = Jim Wallace | after = Paul Tyler}}{{s-end}}{{Current Liberal Democrat Peers}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kirkwood, Archy}} 14 : 1946 births|Living people|Politicians from Glasgow|Scottish Liberal Party MPs|Scottish Liberal Democrat MPs|Liberal Democrats (UK) life peers|UK MPs 1983–87|UK MPs 1987–92|UK MPs 1992–97|UK MPs 1997–2001|UK MPs 2001–05|Alumni of Heriot-Watt University|Knights Bachelor|Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom |
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