MP for East Aberdeenshire 1928-1954, and Baron of Buchan and Rattray Head after that. He won £40,000 in a libel case against the Sunday
Mirror and German magazine Stern when they accused him of having a homosexual affair with gangster
Ronald Kray. The claim was later found to be true after his death. A bisexual, he also allegedly had a daughter by
Harold Macmillan's wife.