Early Life
Liddell-Grainger was born in Edinburgh to David Liddell-Grainger and Anne Liddell-Grainger (née Abel Smith) and educated at Wellesley House in Kent and Millfield School in Somerset, then South Scotland Agricultural College in Edinburgh, gaining a National Certificate of Agriculture. Before entering Parliament he ran a 250-acre (1.0 km2) farm in the Scottish Borders from 1980-5 and later became a company director in Newcastle of his family holdings in the City. He was also a Major in the Territorial Army with the 6th Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, commanding the machine-gun Platoon and then X Company of the Battalion in Newcastle upon Tyne and an adviser to the Ministry of Defence. In the 1997 general election Liddell-Grainger contested Torridge and West Devon, where he came second to the Liberal Democrat candidate John Burnett.
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