Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. James Anthony Stodart, Baron Stodart of Leaston (6 June 1916 31 May 2003) was a Scottish Tory politician. The son of a colonel in the Indian medical service, he took over the family farm at Kingston, North Berwick, East Lothian, after his father died when he was just 18. Eventually he farmed more than 800 acres (3.2 km2) at Leaston, near Humbie, East Lothian. Although he was an active Unionist in his youth, he fell out with the party and joined the Liberal Party, standing as their candidate in Berwick and East Lothian in 1950. By the following year Stodart had returned to the Tory fold and was Unionist candidate for Midlothian and Peebles in 1951 for and Midlothian in 1955