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Sir Thomas Dalyell of the Binns, 11th Baronet (born August 9, 1932), more commonly known as Tam Dalyell, is a Scottish politician and was a Labour member of the House of Commons from 1962 to 2005.
Dalyell was born in England but raised in the family home, The Binns, near Linlithgow, West Lothian; his father (Percy Gordon Loch) was an "old school" Empire civil servant and through his mother he is an hereditary baronet, although he never uses the title. He was educated at Eton College and did his national service with the Royal Scots Greys from 1950 to 1952. He then went to King's College, Cambridge to study history and economics, where he was Chairman of the Conservative Association. Unusually, he then trained as a teacher at Moray House College in Edinburgh and taught at a non-selective school and a ship school. He joined the Labour Party in 1956 after the Suez Crisis.
He became an MP in June 1962, when he defeated William Wolfe of the Scottish National Party in a hard fought by-election contest for West Lothian. From 1983 onwards he represented Linlithgow (basically a renaming of his West Lothian seat) and easily retained his position as their representative. He became Father of the House after the 2001 General Election, when Sir Edward Heath retired. He was a MEP from 1975 to 1979, and a member of the Labour National Executive from 1986 to 1987 for the Campaign group.

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The 2005 Bulletin features articles and speeches by: Tam Dalyell, Prof. Andrew D. Hook,
Sir Eric Anderson, Geoffrey C. Bond, DL. and Professor David Hewitt.