Margaret Betty Harvie Anderson, Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter, OBE, PC, TD, DL (12 August 1913 – 7 November 1979) was a British Conservative Party politician. She was the first woman to become a Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, which she served as from 1970 to 1973.

Harvie Anderson was born in Glasgow on 12 August 1913 to Thomas Alexander Harvie Anderson and his wife, Margaret Agnes "Nessie" Harvie Anderson (née Shearer).^[1][2] She was educated at St Leonards School, a private school in St Andrews.^[1]

In November 1945, Harvie Anderson was elected to Stirlingshire County Council. In 1953, she became leader of the Moderate Group.^[1]

Harvie Anderson stood for parliament for West Stirlingshire in 1950 and 1951 and in Sowerby in 1955.^[2] She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1956.^[5]

She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Renfrewshire East from 1959 to 1979. Although Betty Boothroyd was the first female Speaker of the House of Commons, Harvie Anderson was the first woman to sit in the Speaker's Chair as a Deputy Speaker (Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means) from 1970 to 1973.^[6] In the 1970s Harvie Anderson helped turn Conservative Party policy against Scottish Devolution which she regarded as a threat to the future of the United Kingdom.^[7] She retired as an MP in 1979.^[1]

Harvie Anderson was given a life peerage in the 1979 Birthday Honours.^[8] She took the unusual title of Baroness Skrimshire of Quarter, of Dunipace in the District of Falkirk, made up of her husband's surname and the estate she owned in Scotland.^[9]

On 7 November 1979, within a week of her introduction to the House of Lords, she died suddenly having suffered an asthma attack.^[1][6]

On 5 May 1960, Harvie Anderson married John Francis Penrose Skrimshire, a medical doctor and heart specialist. They had no children.^[1]