Sir Thomas Dalyell Loch, 11th Baronet (born 9 August 1932), known as Tam Dalyell (pronounced /diːˈɛl/), is a British Labour politician, who was a member of the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005.
Born in Edinburgh, but raised in his mother, Nora Dalyell's family home, The Binns, near Linlithgow, West Lothian; his father (Percy) Gordon Loch, C.I.E., an Empire civil servant (Political Agent) and a scion of the Loch family. His father took his wife'...
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Sir Thomas Dalyell Loch, 11th Baronet (born 9 August 1932), known as Tam Dalyell (pronounced /diːˈɛl/), is a British Labour politician, who was a member of the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005.
Born in Edinburgh, but raised in his mother, Nora Dalyell's family home, The Binns, near Linlithgow, West Lothian; his father (Percy) Gordon Loch, C.I.E., an Empire civil servant (Political Agent) and a scion of the Loch family. His father took his wife's maiden name in 1938, and through his mother he inherited the Baronetcy of the Binns in 1972, although he never uses the title.
Dalyell was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Eton College and did his National Service with the Royal Scots Greys from 1950 to 1952 - as an ordinary trooper, after failing his officer training. He then went to King's College, Cambridge to study History and Economics, where he was Chairman of the Conservative Association. He then trained as a teacher at Moray House College in Edinburgh and taught at a non...
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