Alick Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno

Brigadier Alick Drummond Buchanan-Smith, Baron Balerno, CBE, TD, JP, DL, FRSE, FRSGS (9 October 1898 – 28 July 1984) was a British soldier and prominent geneticist.

[3] He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in World War I, 1916–18 with the Gordon Highlanders but was too young for active service.

His proposers were Robert Blyth Greig, John Bartholomew, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Francis Albert Eley Crew.

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1939,[5] promoted to Commander (CBE) in 1945[6] and he retired in 1956 with the rank of Brigadier.

He was created a life peer as Baron Balerno, of Currie in the County of Midlothian on 9 July 1963,[9] having been Deputy Chairman of the Unionist Party in Scotland (1960–1963).