Alexander Scrymgeour, 12th Earl of Dundee

{{Short description|Scottish peer (born 1949)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}

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| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable

| name = The Earl of Dundee

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| office1 = Member of the House of Lords

| status1 = Lord Temporal

| term_label1 = as a hereditary peer

| term_start1 = 28 October 1983

| term_end1 = 11 November 1999

| predecessor1 = The 11th Earl of Dundee

| successor1 = Seat abolished

| term_label2 = as an elected hereditary peer

| term_start2 = 11 November 1999

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| 1blankname2 = Election

| 1namedata2 = 1999

| predecessor2 = Seat established

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| office3 = Lord-in-waiting
Government Whip

| primeminister3 = Margaret Thatcher

| term_start3 = 3 October 1986

| term_end3 = 26 July 1989

| predecessor3 = new appointment

| successor3 = The Lord Reay

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|6|5|df=y}}

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| spouse = {{marriage|Siobhan Mary Llewellyn|1979|2019|end=her death}}

| party = Conservative

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Alexander Henry Scrymgeour, 12th Earl of Dundee, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|commas=on|DL}} (born 5 June 1949), is a Scottish peer, Conservative politician and Chief of the Clan Scrymgeour.

Born on 5 June 1949, Dundee is the son of Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of Dundee, and Patricia Montagu Douglas Scott.{{cite web|title=Dundee: Deaths Announced|url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/157324/dundee|publisher=Daily Telegraph announcements}} He was educated at Ludgrove School{{cite book |last1=Barber |first1=Richard |title=The Story of Ludgrove |date=2004 |publisher=Guidon Publishing |location=Oxford |isbn=0-9543617-2-5 |page=200}} and Eton College before attending the University of St Andrews. He was a Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II.

Lord Scrymgeour's first active experience as a Conservative politician was as the party's candidate in the Hamilton by-election in 1978. He has sat in the House of Lords since his father's death in 1983, and served as a Lord-in-waiting (Conservative Party whip in the House of Lords) from 1986 to 1989. He served as Government Spokesperson for Education (1986–1988), Government Spokesperson for Scottish Affairs (1986–1989), Government Spokesperson for Home Affairs and for Energy from (1987–1989). He was made an elected hereditary peer (as Earl of Dundee) in 1999.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/representatives/profiles/26588.stm|title=Earl of Dundee|publisher=BBC|access-date=28 January 2010|archive-date=19 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319082738/http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/representatives/profiles/26588.stm|url-status=dead}}

He has served as the UK delegate to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe from 1992 to 1997. He was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Western European parliament from 1992 to 1999. The Earl is honorary consul for Croatia in Edinburgh,{{cite web|url=http://uk.mvp.hr/?mh=19&mv=94|title=Diplomatic Missions and Consular Offices of Croatia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|access-date=20 May 2010|archive-date=15 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915021815/http://uk.mvp.hr/?mh=19&mv=94|url-status=dead}} and is decorated with the Order of Prince Branimir.{{cite news|url=http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2010_07_82_2321.html |newspaper=Narodne novine |title=Odluka kojom se odlikuju Redom kneza Branimira s ogrlicom |date=1 June 2010 |access-date=17 January 2011 |language=hr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226132259/http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2010_07_82_2321.html |archive-date=26 February 2015}} The Dundee Trust works on the Dalmatian coast in Croatia on behalf of DFID to distribute humanitarian aid to some of the poorest people in the Balkans.

A farmer of thirty years' experience, Lord Dundee's Farming Company manages some 2000 acres over the counties of Fife and Angus. Dundee has sat in the House since 1983 where he has exercised his privileges on a number of agriculture and environmental standing committees. Most recently his interests have turned to health questions.9 November 2016, http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/Earl-of-Dundee/2735

Lord Dundee is also the Hereditary Royal Standard Bearer of Scotland,{{cite news|last=Tomlinson|first=Richard|title=They also serve, who only ush|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/they-also-serve-who-only-ush-why-is-the-queen-followed-by-people-in-antique-clothes-richard-tomlinson-on-the-lords-ladies-women-masters-silver-sticks-and-white-staves-at-court-1564751.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219210424/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/they-also-serve-who-only-ush-why-is-the-queen-followed-by-people-in-antique-clothes-richard-tomlinson-on-the-lords-ladies-women-masters-silver-sticks-and-white-staves-at-court-1564751.html |archive-date=2013-12-19 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|newspaper=The Independent|date=20 December 1992}} Constable of Dundee, and Chief of the Name and Arms of Scrymgeour. He was one of the peers carrying the Royal Standards at the 2023 Coronation.{{cite web |title=Coronation order of service in full |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65503950 |website=BBC News |access-date=6 May 2023}}

He is a member of the New Club, Edinburgh and Whites, in London.Who's Who 2016, 168th ed., Bloomsbury, London, 2015.