Graeme Alexander Lockhart Whitelaw (1863 – 23 July 1928) was a British Conservative Party politician from

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who represented North West Lanarkshire in the

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from 1892 to 1895. He was the second son of Alexander Whitelaw and an elder brother of

William Whitelaw William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw (28 June 1918 – 1 July 1999) was a British Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretary from 1979 to 1983 and as '' de fac ...

, grandfather of

William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw (28 June 1918 – 1 July 1999) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician who served in a wide number of Cabinet positions, most notably as Home Secretary from 1979 ...

. Like his brother, he was educated at Harrow and

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1863 births 1928 deaths UK MPs 1892–1895 Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912) People from Lanarkshire {{Conservative-UK-MP-1860s-stub