Iain MacCormick

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Iain MacCormick
Member of Parliament for Argyll
In office
28 February 1974 – 7 April 1979
Preceded byMichael Noble
Succeeded byJohn MacKay
Personal details
Born
Iain Somerled MacDonald MacCormick

(1939-09-28)28 September 1939
Glasgow
Died19 September 2014(2014-09-19) (aged 74)
NationalityScottish
Political partyScottish National Party

Iain Somerled MacDonald MacCormick (28 September 1939 – 19 September 2014) was a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician.

Early life

MacCormick was born in

Glasgow University. He worked as a computer salesman, before leaving Glasgow in 1965 to become a teacher at Oban High School.[2]

Political career

MacCormick belonged to a family steeped in nationalist politics: his father

Argyll at the February 1974 general election, gaining the seat from the Conservatives. He was re-elected in October 1974. At the 1979 general election he was defeated by the Conservative John MacKay. He was then elected to the Argyll and Bute District Council, after standing in a by-election in September 1979.[3]

MacCormick was one of the original members of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), founded in 1981. He later returned to the SNP.[1]

MacCormick died on the night of 19 September 2014 aged 74.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Russell, Michael (23 September 2014). "Obituary: Iain Somerled MacDonald MacCormick, politician". The Scotsman. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  2. ^ a b Barr, Brian (5 June 1970). "Wide Horizons of the West Coast". The Glasgow Herald. p. 14. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  3. The Glasgow Herald
    . 13 September 1979. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
  4. ^ "Former Argyll MP Iain MacCormick has died". BBC News. 20 September 2014. Retrieved 20 September 2014.

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