biography
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Maclennan, Robert (Adam Ross)
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| lived:
| (1936– )
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| biography:
| British politician, born in Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He studied at Oxford, Cambridge, and Columbia University, New York, before being called to the bar in 1962. He entered parliament as Labour member for Caithness and Sutherland in 1966 and represented it from that time until boundary changes established a new constituency, Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross, which he successfully contested in May 1997 and held until he retired from the House of Commons in 2001. A founder member of the Social Democratic Party, he came to prominence in 1987 when David Owen resigned the leadership, and he offered himself as caretaker leader until the terms of the merger had been agreed. He then became a leading member of the new Party, the Social and Liberal Democrats, under Paddy Ashdown, becoming Party president in 1994. He was raised to the peerage in 2001. |
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