Harwood (inherited from his father) in Bonchester Bridge on 8 January 1958 of a coronary thrombosis. He was buried in Hobkirk churchyard three days later. On Elliot's death, his widow stood as a Unionist for her husband's former seat of Glasgow Kelvingrove; she was defeated in the 1958 Glasgow Kelvingrove by-election by Labour's Mary McAlister. Afterwards she was instead one of the four women initially created a life peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958. As the Baroness Elliot of Harwood, she was the first woman to speak in the modern House of Lords. Publications Toryism in the Twentieth Century (1927) Long Distance (1943) Recognition The Elliot Library at the Glasgow University Union is named after him. References Bibliography Torrance, David, The Scottish Secretaries (Birlinn 2006) External links 1888 births 1958 deaths British Army personnel of World War I People educated at the Glasgow Academy Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Glasgow constituencies Agriculture ministers of the United Kingdom Recipients of the Military Cross Rectors of the University of Aberdeen Rectors of the University of Glasgow Royal Army Medical Corps officers Secretaries of State for Scotland 20th-century Scottish medical doctors Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1922–1923 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 Lords High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland Fellows of the Royal Society (Statute 12) Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Tennant family Spouses of life peers Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the Combined Scottish Universities Ministers in the Chamberlain wartime government, 1939–1940 Ministers in the Chamberlain peacetime government, 1937–1939 Royal Scots Greys officers