Baroness Maclennan of Rogart 1935-2026

 Baroness Maclennan of Rogart, who died 22 February, 2026, aged 90, was the widow of the life peer the Baron Maclennan of Rogart, PC.

 She was the former Helen Cutter, daughter of Justice Richard Ammi Cutter of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Her first marriage was to Paul Horning Noyes, by whom she had a son, and she married secondly as a widow in 1968, the then Robert Maclennan, MP (born 26 June, 1936), who was the last leader of the Social Democratic Party, serving during the negotiations that led to its merger with the Liberal Party in 1988. He then became joint interim leader of the new party, known as the Social and Liberal Democrats (SLD) and later as the Liberal Democrats. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1966 to 2001, when he was elevated to the House of Lords as Baron Maclennan of Rogart, of Rogart in Sutherland. Her husband predeceased her 18 January, 2020.

Lady Maclennan leaves a son from her first marriage, Nicholas, and a son and daughter, Adam and Ruth Maclennan, from the second marriage.

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