Ian MacArthur (17 May 1925 – 30 November 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as

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for Perth and East Perthshire from 1959 until 1974.

Early life

MacArthur was born on 17 May 1925. He was the younger son of Lieutenant-General Sir

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. He was educated at

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and

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. He worked as an associate director of a marketing and advertising company.

Political career

MacArthur contested Greenock twice as a Unionist in 1955, in the general election and a

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. He was

for Perth and East Perthshire from 1959 until his defeat at the October 1974 general election, when he lost by 793 votes to

Douglas Crawford George Douglas Crawford (1 November 1939 – 17 April 2002) was a Scottish politician and journalist who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Perth and East Perthshire from 1974 to 1979. Crawford was educated at Glasgow Academy and St Cath ...

of the Scottish National Party. In the

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he was a whip 1963–65, as a

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1963–64. He then became an opposition Scottish affairs spokesman.

Personal life

He married Judith Miller in 1957 and had 7 children, including Niall MacArthur, founder of Eat.

References

*''Times Guide to the House of Commons'', 1966 and October 1974 *

External links

* 1925 births 2007 deaths People educated at Cheltenham College Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford Scottish Conservative Party MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1959–1964 UK MPs 1964–1966 UK MPs 1966–1970 UK MPs 1970–1974 UK MPs 1974 Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs Ministers in the Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964 {{Conservative-UK-MP-1920s-stub