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Lord Ewing of Kirkford
Obituary of Lord Ewing of Kirkford, Labour politician; born January 20, 1931; died June 9, 2007. Harry Ewing, who has died at age of 76, was a Labour MP for 21 years who found his destiny in the role of co-chairman of the Scottish Constitutional Convention.That body worked, from 1990-96, to provide the blueprint for the devolution legislation that was introduced when Labour came to power in 1997.
Ewing, who retired from the House of Commons in 1992 and was then ennobled, was the natural choice for this role as Labour's nominee alongside David Steel.
He was a lifelong devolutionist who had day-to-day responsibility for the failed legislation of the 1970s ...
He represented a distinctly Presbyterian strain within the Scottish Labour Party - slightly conservative on social issues, a member of the Church of Scotland's Education Committee, honorary president of the Girls' Brigade and an elder of the Kirk.
Full story at The Herald.
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