Newly-appointed Defence Secretary Ben Wallace cut his political teeth representing the north-east at Holyrood two decades ago.
Mr Wallace, 49, who has just been promoted by Boris Johnson, was one of the youngest MSPs when the devolved parliament was created in 1999.
The former Scots Guardsman was a Tory frontbench spokesman on health under the late Scottish Conservative leader David McLetchie before leaving in 2003 to pursue his Commons career.
In the 1999 Scottish Parliament he stood in the West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine seat, coming second to the Lib Dem Mike Rumbles.
But that was enough to get him into Holyrood via the list system representing the North East region.
After leaving the private school Millfield, he worked as a ski instructor before going to Sandhurst.
He was then commissioned into the Scots Guards and in the 1990s saw service in Northern Ireland, Germany, Cyprus and Central America.
He was mentioned in dispatches in 1992.
New Defence Secretary represented the north east as a MSP two decades ago
