Background
Slade, Adrian Carnegie was born on May 25, 1936 in London. Son of George Penkivil and Mary Albinia (Carnegie) Slade.
Slade, Adrian Carnegie was born on May 25, 1936 in London. Son of George Penkivil and Mary Albinia (Carnegie) Slade.
He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became President of the Footlights, and famously recruited Peter Cook to the society.
He was a Liberal Party parliamentary candidate in the 1960s and 1970s, contesting Putney in 1966, February 1974 and October 1974. He stood as an Social Democratic Party–Liberal Alliance candidate in Wimbledon in 1987. He became Leader of the Social Democratic Party–Liberal Alliance group on the Greater London Council, and remained so until the Greater London Council"s dissolution in 1986.
He served as the last ever President of the Liberal Party, from 1987 to 1988, conducting its merger negotiations with the Social Democratic Party.
He was vice-president of the Liberal Democrats 1988-1989.
Candidate Liberal Party, 1966, 74, 87, president, 1987-1988. Member Great London Council, 1981-1986. Joint president Social and Liberal Democrats, 1988, vice president, 1989.
Married Susan Elizabeth Forsyth, June 22, 1960. Children: Nicola, Rupert.