Our President in 1984/85 was:
The Right Hon. Lord Grimond
He proposed the Toast to Sir Walter at our 77th Annual Dinner on Friday 1st March 1985 in The North British Hotel, Edinburgh
Read the text of his address here
Joseph Grimond, Baron Grimond, CH, CBE, TD, PC (29 July 1913 – 24 October 1993), known as Jo Grimond, was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party for eleven years from 1956 to 1967 and again briefly on an interim basis in 1976.
He was a long-term supporter of Scottish home rule; and, during his leadership, he successfully argued that the Liberal Party support the abolition of Britain's nuclear arsenal.
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