Who was MP for Orkney and Shetland from 1950 to 1983 leading his party for over 10 of those years?
Basil Neven-Spence Liberal Party. He was knighted in 1945 and served as Lord Lieutenant of Shetland from 1952-1963. To the present day, Neven-Spence is the most recent MP for the Orkney and Shetland constituency to not be from either the Liberal Party or their successor party, the Liberal Democrats; as they have retained the seat ever since Grimond gained it at the 1950 general election. He once lived on the island of Uyea. Basil St. Clair Neven-Spence, Sir Basil's son, served in the Colonial Office following serving in World War II. Basil St. Clair committed suicide at the age of 22, after
1669 Act for annexation of Orkney and Shetland to the Crown 1669 Act for annexation of Orkney and Shetland to the Crown The 1669 Act of Annexation was a Parliamentary Act passed during 1669 by the Parliament of Scotland to establish Orkney and Shetland's status as Crown Dependencies following a legal dispute with William, Earl of Morton, who held the estates of Orkney and Shetland. The Act made Orkney and Shetland exempt from any ""dissolution of His Majesty’s lands"". In 1742 a further Act of Parliament returned the estates to a later Earl of Morton, however, the original act of Parliament specifically proscribes this, stating that any such change is to