Ian Gilmour
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Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar, PC, was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He served in Prime Minister Ted Heath's cabinet as Secretary of State for Defence and under Margaret Thatcher as Lord Privy Seal from 1979 until the September 1981 cabinet reshuffle. His job with the official title of Lord Privy Seal, was the chief government spokesman in the House of Commons for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs working to the Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington who sat in the House of Lords. He did not have good relations with Mrs. 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.
| Preceded by: The Lord Carrington | Secretary of State for Defence 1974 | Succeeded by: Roy Mason |
| Preceded by: The Lord Peart | Lord Privy Seal 1979–1981 | Succeeded by: Humphrey Atkins |