Personal Life
He has been Berwick-upon-Tweed's MP since 1973 and is now the longest current serving Liberal Democrat MP and only current Liberal Democrat MP to have experience of the House of Commons in the 1970s. As such he has been the MP for the northernmost English constituency for almost 40 years.
Beith was married in 1965 to Barbara Ward and they had a son and a daughter. His wife died in 1998 and he married Diana Maddock, Baroness Maddock in 2001. He and his wife are one of the few married couples to both hold titles in their own right. He is president of the Liberal Democrat Christian Forum.
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