Born in Ayrshire, he was educated at Uppingham School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He stood unsuccessfully in the Kilmarnock by-election in November 1929, but was returned to the House of Commons at the 1931 general election for Glasgow Partick, and in 1935 for Bute and Northern Ayrshire, holding that seat until he retired from the Commons in 1959.
He was knighted in the 1935 Birthday Honours,[1] appointed a Privy Counsellor[2] in 1952 and was raised to the peerage as Baron MacAndrew in 1959.
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