Ian Lang Livingstone (born 23 February 1938) is a Scottish businessman; former Chairman of the board of Motherwell College; former Chairman of

Motherwell Football Club Motherwell Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, which plays in the Scottish Premiership. Motherwell have not dropped out of the top-flight of Scottish football since 1985, and have lif ...

; former Chairman of Lanarkshire Health Board; and former Chairman of the Lanarkshire Development Agency.

Early life and career

Ian Lang Livingstone was born in

Hamilton, South Lanarkshire Hamilton ( sco, Hamiltoun; gd, Baile Hamaltan ) is a large town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It serves as the main administrative centre of the South Lanarkshire council area. It sits south-east of Glasgow, south-west of Edinburgh and nort ...

on 23 February 1938 to Margaret Steele (''née'' Barbour) and John Lang Livingstone. He was educated at the Hamilton Academy. From the Academy Livingstone entered the

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, graduating with a degree in law in 1960 and subsequently engaged (1962–86) with the firm of Ballantyne & Copland, Solicitors, Motherwell, becoming a senior partner (and, since 1989, consultant solicitor.) Since 1987 he has been chairman and director of his family property investment and development company. Livingstone has been a member of the boards of numerous companies, including serving as chairman of

from 1973 to 1987.Debrett’s Biographies – Ian Livingstone
Retrieved 8 November 2010

Public and voluntary sector appointments

Ian Livingstone served as chairman of the Lanarkshire Development Agency from 1991 to 2000 and as chairman of Lanarkshire Health Board (now

NHS Lanarkshire NHS Lanarkshire is responsible for the health care of more than 652,000 people living within the subdivisions of Scotland, council areas of North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire in Scotland, making it the third largest health board in the countr ...

) from 1993 to 2002. A former chairman of the board of Motherwell College (1989–97), Livingstone is honorary solicitor to the Dalziel High School War Memorial Trust and since 1990, a member of the Dalziel High School Board. He has been a governor of the

David Livingstone David Livingstone (; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of t ...

Memorial Trust since 1988, and chairman of the trust since 2008.

Awards and honours

Ian Livingstone was appointed

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 1993, "For services to business and to the community and health in Lanarkshire."The Independent - Queen’s Birthday Honours 1998
Retrieved 8 November 2010 He was appointed

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

in 1998 and, in 2008, a Deputy Lieutenant of Lanarkshire and awarded an Honorary Degree from the University of the West of Scotland in the same year.

References

External links

Dalziel High School War Memorial Trust

National Health Service (NHS) Lanarkshire

Motherwell Football Club
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