Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Munro-Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet (13 January 1903 – 18 November 1985), born and

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Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Warrand and known as Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet, from 1920 to 1965, was a

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politician. Elected to parliament in 1924 at the age of 21, he was the first British MP to have been born in the 20th century.

Family

Warrand's father was Hugh Munro Warrand (8 July 1870 – 11 June 1935, married 24 April 1901),

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in the 3rd Battalion of the

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, and son of Alexander John Cruikshank Warrand of

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, Inverness-shire. Warrand's mother, Beatrice Maude Lucas Lucas-Tooth (died 25 June 1944), was a daughter of Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet. Warrand's great-grandfather was

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, a prominent Australian businessman. His brother, Selwyn John Power Warrand (6 February 1904 – 24 May 1941), who married 25 March 1933 to Frena Lingen Crace, daughter of Everard Crace, from

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, by whom he had two children. Selwyn John Power Warrand was a

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in the service of the

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, fought in

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and was

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on board of

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and his widow remarried in 1947 Henry Richard Charles Humphries. His sister, Beatrice Helen Fitzhardinge Warrand (born 1908), married on 27 September 1941 another World War II veteran, Lieutenant Colonel Lyndall Fownes Urwick,

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, Officer of the

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, son of Sir Henry Urwick of

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, Justice of the Peace.

Biography

Warrand was educated at

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, and graduated from

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in 1924 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He adopted the legally changed name Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Lucas-Tooth of Teanich by

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in 1920 when he gained, at the age of seventeen, the recreated

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cy of his maternal grandfather, the first baronet, whose three sons had died in

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, being created 1st Baronet Lucas-Tooth, of Bught, County Inverness, in the

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on 1 December 1920, with special remainder to the heirs male of the body of his mother. Lucas-Tooth was first elected to the

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in the 1924 general election as

Member of Parliament for the

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from October 1924 to May 1929. Aged 21, he became the youngest MP, known as "

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". He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Arthur Samuel,

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. Lucas-Tooth was

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in 1933 at

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entitled to practise as a

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. He also became a lieutenant colonel in the service of the

. During the 1930s Lucas-Tooth helped established the Lucas-Tooth gymnasium at

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in south London for the benefit of unemployed men from the Northern coalfields and unemployed areas. A new style of physical exercises helped improve the fitness of these men. It was featured in a British Pathe newsreel in 1938 titled 'Fit – Fitter – Fittest'. He was defeated in the 1929 general election by the

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candidate,

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. Lucas-Tooth stood again for parliament in the 1945 general election for Hendon South, and was elected, taking his seat in July 1945. He retained the seat in subsequent general elections until 1970 and was Parliamentary

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between February 1952 and December 1955. On 3 February 1965 Lucas-Tooth legally changed his name once again by

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to Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Munro-Lucas-Tooth of Teaninich, to reflect the Scottish

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ship

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of Teaninich. He retired from Parliament at the 1970 general election.

Marriage and issue

He married on 10 September 1925 Laetitia Florence Findlay (died 1978), daughter of Sir John Ritchie Findlay, 1st Baronet, of Aberlour; the couple had three children, Laetitia (born 1926), Jennifer (born 1929), and Hugh (born 1932). Hugh succeeded his father as Baronet.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lucas-Tooth, Hugh 1903 births 1985 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs 1959–1964 UK MPs 1964–1966 UK MPs 1966–1970 Ministers in the third Churchill government, 1951–1955 Ministers in the Eden government, 1955–1957