Allan Macartney

Dr Allan Macartney
Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party
In office 25 September 1992 – 25 August 1998
Leader	Alex Salmond
Preceded by	Jim Sillars
Succeeded by	John Swinney
Member of the European Parliament for North East Scotland
In office 9 June 1994 – 25 August 1998
Preceded by	Henry McCubbin
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	17 February 1941 Accra, Gold Coast (now Ghana)
Died	Aberdeen, Scotland
Political party	Scottish National Party
Spouse(s)	Anne Forsyth (m. 1963-1998)
Children	3
Alma mater	University of Tübingen University of Marburg University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow
Religion	Church of Scotland

Dr William John Allan Macartney (17 February 1941 in Accra, Gold Coast, now Ghana – 25 August 1998 in Aberdeen) was a Scottish National Party (SNP) MEP for the North East Scotland constituency between the 1994 European Parliament election and his sudden death from a heart attack in 1998.

Born in Africa, the son of a Church of Scotland minister, his family soon returned to Scotland and he was schooled in Elgin, Moray. He studied at the universities of Tübingen and Marburg in Germany, and then at the universities of Edinburgh (graduating in Economic Science in 1962) and Glasgow.

Upon completing his studies he returned to Africa as a voluntary secondary schoolteacher in eastern Nigeria (1963-1964). He then worked as a lecturer in government and administration at the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland from 1966 to 1974.

Upon returning to Scotland, he continued his academic career, serving as Staff Tutor in Politics at the Open University from 1975 to 1994. He founded the Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland at the University of Edinburgh, and was elected Rector of the University of Aberdeen.

He became the SNP depute leader in 1992. He was a founder of the Federation of Student Nationalists, and the founder and Provost of the Scottish Self-Government College.

At the North East Scotland by-election, 1998, caused by Allan Macartney's death, Ian Hudghton held the seat for the SNP with a substantially increased majority.

In 2006, an internship was launched by the SNP named after Dr. Macartney. Its aims are to encourage young people to take an interest in European and Scottish Politics. Applicants do not have to be members of the SNP. (Source)

External links

• Obituary: Allan Macartney by Neil MacCormick
• Obituaries
• The Dr Allan Macartney Scholarship, University of Aberdeen

Party political offices
Preceded by Jim Sillars	Senior Vice Convener (Depute Leader) of the Scottish National Party 1992–98	Succeeded by John Swinney
Academic offices
Preceded by Ian Hamilton	Rector of the University of Aberdeen 1996–1998	Succeeded by Clarissa Dickson Wright