Tam Dalyell

Sir Tam Dalyell Bt
Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh
In office 7 March 2003 – 15 February 2006
Preceded by	Robin Harper
Succeeded by	Mark Ballard
Father of the House
In office 7 June 2001 – 5 May 2005
Preceded by	Sir Edward Heath
Succeeded by	Alan Williams
Member of Parliament for Linlithgow
In office 10 June 1983 – 11 April 2005
Preceded by	Constituency created
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Member of Parliament for West Lothian
In office 14 June 1962 – 9 June 1983
Preceded by	John Taylor
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	Thomas Dalyell Loch (1932-08-09)9 August 1932 Edinburgh, Scotland
Died	26 January 2017(2017-01-26) (aged 84)
Political party	Labour
Spouse(s)	Kathleen Wheatley
Residence	House of the Binns
Alma mater	Eton College King's College, Cambridge
Military service
Service/branch	Royal Scots Greys British Army
Years of service	1950–1952
Rank	Trooper

Sir Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, 11th Baronet (9 August 1932 – 26 January 2017), known as Tam Dalyell (ⁱ/diːˈɛl/ dee-EL), was a Scottish Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005. He represented West Lothian from 1962 to 1983, then Linlithgow from 1983 to 2005. He is particularly well known for his formulation of what came to be known as the "West Lothian question", on whether non-English MPs should be able to vote upon English-only matters after political devolution.

Dalyell was born in Edinburgh, and raised in his mother Nora Dalyell's family home, the Binns, near Linlithgow, West Lothian; his father (Percy) Gordon Loch, C.I.E. (1887–1953), was a colonial civil servant and a scion of the Loch family; Highland Clearances facilitator James Loch (1780–1855) was an ancestral uncle. Loch took his wife's surname in 1938; through his mother Dalyell inherited the baronetcy of Dalyell, although he never used the title.

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