William John Allan Macartney was a Scottish politician who served as a Scottish National Party MEP for the North East Scotland constituency between the 1994 European Parliament election and his sudden death from a heart attack in 1998.
10 Facts About Allan Macartney
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Allan Macartney was the son of a Church of Scotland minister, his family soon returned to Scotland and he was schooled in Elgin, Moray.
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Allan Macartney studied at the universities of Tubingen and Marburg in Germany, and then at the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Allan Macartney then worked as a lecturer in government and administration at the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland from 1966 to 1974.
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Allan Macartney completed a PhD on the politics of Botswana, supervised by John Mackintosh.
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Allan Macartney founded the Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland at the University of Edinburgh, and was elected Rector of the University of Aberdeen.
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Allan Macartney was the founder and Provost of the Scottish Self-Government College.
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Allan Macartney was unsuccessful in the 1991 Kincardine and Deeside by-election and at the same seat in the 1992 election.
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Allan Macartney was elected Rector of the University of Aberdeen in 1996.
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Allan Macartney collapsed and died on 25 August 1998 at his home in Aberdeen.