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Donald Dewar was born the only child of Dr Alasdair Dewar, a distinguished consultant dermatologist, and Mary née Bennett. Dewar pÿre was confined to a sanatorium with tuberculosis for long ...
Oct 12, 2020 · If this were not enough Dewar, like many senior Labour figures, had a profound ambivalence about elements of modern Scotland which spilled over into how he saw devolution. Dewar was a lawyer by profession, and practiced law when out of the UK Parliament from 1970-78, after losing Aberdeen South and before he won Glasgow Garscadden in the 1978 by-election.
Oct 11, 2020 · Dewar’s measured and strictly within the law approach allowed Labour’s detractors to indict on the basis of political impotence. When Jim Sillars captured Govan for the SNP at a by-election in November 1988, there followed months of soul-searching within the party. Dewar’s response was to hold his nerve and take a calculated gamble.
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Donald Dewar lived from 21 August 1937 to 11 October 2000. He was the politician largely responsible for Scottish Devolution in 1997 and who became Scotland's first First Minister. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline. Donald Dewar was born in Glasgow, the only child of Alisdair Dewar, an eminent ...
Oct 3, 2010 · Donald Dewar died after a single, troubled year in office as first minister, dogged by controversies like Clause 28 and the Holyrood building project. He died before devolution could be thoroughly ...
Oct 8, 2020 · A significant and poignant moment in Scotland’s recent history comes up this weekend on Sunday, with the 20 th anniversary of the tragic death of the first ever First Minister Donald Dewar at the age of 63. Donald Dewar was a profoundly decent person, imbued with an older sense of public mission and morality, who often seemed out of kilter ...
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The late Donald Dewar was remembered as fondly by his constituents in Glasgow as he was by UK political leaders and royalty. He entered parliament in the mid-1960s as MP for Aberdeen South, but ...
