The Baroness Kirkhill, widow of the Labour politician and life peer the Baron Kirkhill, died 14 October, 2025, aged 95.
The former Frances Mary Walker Reid married in 1965, John Farquharson Smith, who was born 7 May, 1930, son of Alexander Findlay Smith, of Aberdeen.
Her husband was Lord Provost of Aberdeen, 1971-1975; Minister of State at the Scottish Office in the administrations of Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, 1975-79; Delegate to the Parliamentary Assembly of COE and WEU from 1981; Chairman Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of COE (1991). He was raised to the peerage for life in 1975, as Baron Kirkhill, in the District of the City of Aberdeen, upon his appointment as a government minister.
Lady Kirkhill was widowed 21 March, 2023.
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