Charles MacAndrew, 1st Baron MacAndrew

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Charles Glen MacAndrew, 1st Baron MacAndrew (13 January 1888 – 11 January 1979) was a Scottish Unionist politician. He was born in Ayrshire and educated at Uppingham School and Trinity College, Cambridge.

He was elected Member of Parliament for Kilmarnock in 1924 and served until 1929. After losing the 1929 by-election, he returned to Parliament in 1931 as MP for Glasgow Partick, and from 1935 he represented Bute and Northern Ayrshire until he retired from the Commons in 1959. He held senior parliamentary roles, becoming Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means in 1945 and again from 1950 to 1951, and served as Speaker of the House of Commons and Chairman of Ways and Means from 1951 to 1959.

MacAndrew also commanded the Ayrshire Yeomanry from 1932 to 1936 and was Honorary Colonel from 1951 to 1955. He was knighted in 1935, made a Privy Councillor in 1952, and was raised to the peerage as Baron MacAndrew in 1959.