Lindsay Allan Roy,

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(born 19 January 1949) is a

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politician, who was the

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(MP) for

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from

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until 2015. He is the former Rector of

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and

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. He announced he would be standing down as an MP in 2015 after being diagnosed with

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Teaching career

Roy was educated at the

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where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1970. He then trained as a teacher and became principal teacher of Modern Studies at

Queen Anne High School Dunfermline Queen Anne High School is a large secondary school in the city of Dunfermline in Fife. It is named for Anne of Denmark, the queen of James VI, whose former home was the school's original location. In the 1930s it moved to the former Dunfermline ...

in 1974. He was promoted to be Assistant Rector of

in 1983, but left after three years to be Depute Rector of Glenwood High School in

."Roy, Lindsay Allan" in "Who's Who 2007", A & C Black. Starting in 1990, Roy became Rector of

, being awarded with a

for his work there in 2004. He served also as an Associate Assessor for HM Inspectorate of Education from 1996, and was appointed Chairman of the Curriculum and Student Affairs Committee of

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in 1997. Becoming active in The Headmaster's Association of Scotland, he was appointed as its president for the year 2004–05. He became

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in 2008, the High School that former Prime Minister

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had attended as a boy.Gordon Brown's Headteacher is Labour Candidate for Glenrothes
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'', 2 September 2008

Parliamentary career

2008 by-election

Roy was chosen by the local Labour Party to fight the Parliamentary constituency of Glenrothes, following the death of local MP John MacDougall. Following the victory at a by-election of the

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in the parliamentary constituency of Glasgow East earlier that year, despite Fife not having a history of such spectacular landslide swings to the SNP in the past as in the West of Scotland, it had been expected that Labour would lose the by-election; however, the Labour Party held the seat, increasing their total vote slightly, albeit with a reduced majority. Roy was subsequently a member of the Scottish Affairs Select Committee.

2010 general election

At the 2010 election he polled 25,247 votes, 62.3% of the votes cast, an increase of 10.4%, easily securing re-election.North East Fife and Glenrothes election results – Local Headlines
Fife Today. Retrieved on 2011-01-06.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roy, Lindsay 1949 births Living people Scottish Labour MPs Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Fife constituencies Scottish schoolteachers Commanders of the Order of the British Empire UK MPs 2005–2010 UK MPs 2010–2015 Alumni of the University of Edinburgh People with Parkinson's disease