Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish businessman, industrialist and Liberal politician.
Tennant's house, The Glen in the Scottish Borders.
Walter Elliot was a politician of Scotland's Unionist Party prominent in the interwar period. He was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in 1918, and besides an interval of months in 1923–24 and 1945–46, remained in parliament until his death. His Cabinet roles were as the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in the National Government (1931–1935) of Ramsay MacDonald; as the Secretary of State for Scotland in the National Government (1935–1937) of Stanley Baldwin; and as Minister of Health in Neville Chamberlain's National Government (1937–1939) and the short-lived Chamberlain war ministry.
Walter Elliot helped save the Palace of Westminster's great hall during the Blitz.
Westminster Hall (built 1097) is the largest remnant of the medieval palace; its roof greater span than any timber roof in England, built by Hugh Herland (begun 1393).
Memorial bench dedicated to Walter Elliot in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, "presented by fellow officers of the Royal Scots Greys"