Profile: Lord Strathclyde

Born in Glasgow in 1960, the son of Hillhead MP Sir Thomas Galbraith, Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Bilcquy Galbraith became Lord Strathclyde upon the death of his grandfather in 1985. (His own father died in 1982.)

A graduate of the University of East Anglia, he entered the Lords in 1986 as a hereditary peer and held a range of posts with the Tory government before being appointed Leader of the House in 1999. A successful politician with a number of cross-party friends, Lord Strathclyde was voted Peer of the Year by Channel 4 in 2000 and by the Spectator in 2004. He married Jane, with whom he has three daughters, in 1992 and is said to be worth 10 million.