Son of Captain Evan Jock Bruce-Gardyne, DSO, RN, 13th Laird of Middleton, and a member of a Scottish landholding family who have been based in the county of Angus since at least 1008 AD, he was born in Chertsey, Surrey.
10 Facts About Jock Bruce-Gardyne
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Jock Bruce-Gardyne was educated at Twyford School, Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, and then served for six years in Foreign Service before becoming a journalist.
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Jock Bruce-Gardyne was a council member of the Bow Group.
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Jock Bruce-Gardyne held the seat until the October 1974 general election, when he lost to Andrew Welsh of the Scottish National Party.
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Jock Bruce-Gardyne was later elected as the MP for Knutsford at a by-election in 1979, but was effectively forced out of the House of Commons when the seat was abolished by boundary changes for the 1983 general election.
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Jock Bruce-Gardyne was a monetarist and was opposed to the Falklands War and was an independent-minded MP.
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Jock Bruce-Gardyne was succeeded in the new Tatton seat by Neil Hamilton.
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Jock Bruce-Gardyne was created a life peer as Baron Bruce-Gardyne, of Kirkden in the District of Angus, on 7 October 1983.
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Jock Bruce-Gardyne married Sally Louisa Mary Maitland, daughter of Commander Sir John Maitland, in 1959.
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Jock Bruce-Gardyne died of a brain tumour in Kensington and Chelsea at the age of sixty.