Jo Grimond

The Right Honourable The Lord Grimond CH CBE TD PC
Grimond in 1963
Leader of the Liberal Party
In office 5 November 1956 – 17 January 1967
President	Leonard Behrens Nathaniel Micklem Arthur Comyns Carr Harold Glanville Andrew Murray Edwin Malindine Felix Brunner The Lord Ogmore Roger Fulford Nancy Seear The Lord Henley
Deputy	Donald Wade (1962–1964)
Preceded by	Clement Davies
Succeeded by	Jeremy Thorpe
Liberal Chief Whip
In office February 1950 – November 1956
Leader	Clement Davies
Preceded by	Frank Byers
Succeeded by	Donald Wade
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage 12 October 1983 – 24 October 1993
Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland
In office 23 February 1950 – 13 May 1983
Preceded by	Basil Neven-Spence
Succeeded by	Jim Wallace
Personal details
Born	Joseph Grimond 29 July 1913 St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
Died	24 October 1993(1993-10-24) (aged 80) Glasgow, Scotland
Political party	Liberal Liberal Democrats
Spouse	Laura Bonham Carter ​ (m. 1938)​
Children	4
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford

Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond, CH, CBE, TD, PC (/ˈɡrɪmənd/; 29 July 1913 – 24 October 1993) was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party for eleven years from 1956 to 1967 and again briefly on an interim basis in 1976.

Grimond was a long-term supporter of Scottish home rule; and, during his leadership, he successfully advocated for the Liberal Party to support the abolition of Britain's nuclear arsenal.^[1]