1. Jean Urquhart was born on 17 May 1949 and is a Scottish politician.
12 Facts About Jean Urquhart
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Jean Urquhart was formerly a Member of the Scottish Parliament, first elected in 2011 for the Highlands and Islands region as a Scottish National Party member, then continuing to sit as an independent after she left the SNP in October 2012.
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Jean Urquhart had been an SNP councillor at the Highland Council from 2003 to 2011.
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Jean Urquhart was born on 17 May 1949 in West Lothian, the daughter of an agricultural engineer.
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Jean Urquhart was elected from the regional list, becoming a SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Highlands and Islands.
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Jean Urquhart was a member of the Scottish National Party until October 2012, when she and John Finnie resigned from the party over the change to the party's NATO policy.
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In 2014, after Urquhart intervened, the Post Office Ltd made its mortgage service available to people in Bute, Lewis, Harris, Orkney, Shetland, Arran, Mull and Islay.
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In January 2016 RISE announced their candidates, with Jean Urquhart named as their lead for the Highlands and Islands regional list.
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Jean Urquhart was awarded an MBE in 1990 for services to the arts and the community, in recognition of the work she and her husband and others put in to establish The Ceilidh Place as a centre for the arts and tourism.
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Jean Urquhart was later offered an OBE but turned it down.
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Jean Urquhart received an honorary fellowship from the University of the Highlands and Islands in 2006.
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Jean Urquhart was married to Robert Urquhart, a well-known Scottish actor in British film, stage and television, who died in 1995.