David Steel
![Official portrait, 2020](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Official_portrait_of_The_Lord_Steel_of_Aikwood.jpg)
Steel served as a Member of the UK Parliament for 32 years, from 1965 to 1997, and as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) from 1999 to 2003, during which time he was the parliament's Presiding Officer. He was a member of the House of Lords as a life peer from 1997 to 2020. Steel resigned from the House of Lords after the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse accused him of an "abdication of responsibility" over his failure to investigate allegations of child sex abuse against the former Liberal MP Sir Cyril Smith. Provided by Wikipedia
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