John MacDonald MacCormick was a Scottish lawyer, Scottish nationalist politician and advocate of Home Rule in Scotland.
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30 Facts About John MacCormick
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John MacCormick's father was Donald MacCormick, a sea captain who was from the Isle of Mull.
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John MacCormick's mother was the first district nurse in the Western Isles.
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John MacCormick became involved in politics while at university, and joined the Glasgow University Labour Club and the Independent Labour Party in 1923.
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In September 1927 John MacCormick left the ILP and formed the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association, which was designed to promote Scottish culture and nationalism and self-government.
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John MacCormick was a talented speaker and organiser, and served as the national secretary of the NPS.
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In consequence, John MacCormick initiated a campaign to redefine the policy of the NPS, to make it more moderate and to tone down demands for independence.
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John MacCormick first stood for Parliament as an NPS candidate at the 1929 general election, when he came third in Glasgow Camlachie, with 1,646 votes.
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John MacCormick's endeavours paid dividends, and in 1934 the two parties merged to form the Scottish National Party.
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John MacCormick himself was not a dogmatic politician, and described himself as a radical, by which he meant a form of centrist liberal.
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John MacCormick considered the basic problem to be that, although many people in Scotland favoured home rule, they were not, on the whole, willing to put the issue above conventional party loyalties.
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The solution, John MacCormick argued, was to make the other parties take home rule seriously, and to demonstrate widespread support for the cause.
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John MacCormick had made contact with both the Labour and Liberal parties, and although the first meeting, scheduled for September 1939, was cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II, MacCormick pushed negotiations throughout the war.
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John MacCormick considered that his preferred strategy of co-operation with other organisations meant that there was little need for the SNP to function as a mainstream political party.
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John MacCormick endeavoured to present an acceptable face of Scottish nationalism, and did much to reverse the party's official anti-conscription policy following the outbreak of the Second World War.
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John MacCormick resigned from the party in 1942 following his failure to persuade the party to adopt a devolutionist stance rather than supporting all out Scottish independence and due to the victory of Douglas Young over his favoured candidate, William Power, for the leadership of the SNP.
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John MacCormick took the decision to join the Liberal Party as he viewed them as being the party most closely allied to his devolutionist ambitions for Scotland.
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John MacCormick stood as the Liberal candidate for Inverness at the 1945 general election.
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In 1951, John MacCormick formed the Scottish Covenant Association, a non-partisan political organisation which campaigned to secure the establishment of a devolved Scottish Assembly.
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John MacCormick's failure discredited claims as to the popularity of home rule, and further served to reinforce notions that the Scottish Convention was an anti-Labour organisation.
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John MacCormick's failure left the SNP with a monopoly of the cause of home rule.
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John MacCormick was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow in October 1950.
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John MacCormick was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws by the university in 1951.
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John MacCormick was involved, along with Hamilton, in the removal of the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1950 and its return to Arbroath Abbey.
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John MacCormick mounted a legal challenge, MacCormick v Lord Advocate, over the right of Queen Elizabeth using the title Queen Elizabeth II, on grounds that there had been no previous Scottish Queen Elizabeth.
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In 1955 John MacCormick had a book detailing his activities in the home rule movement published, entitled The Flag in the Wind.
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John MacCormick married Margaret Isobel Miller in 1939, with whom he had two sons and two daughters.
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John MacCormick was the uncle of the journalist and broadcaster Donald MacCormick.
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John MacCormick's funeral was held in the chapel of the University of Glasgow.
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