Thomas McLellan McMillan (12 February 1919 – 30 April 1980) was a Scottish

Labour Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...

politician. McMillan was a wood machinist at

Cowlairs Cowlairs is an area in the Scottish city of Glasgow, part of the wider Springburn district of the city. It is situated north of the River Clyde, between central Springburn to the east and Possilpark to the west. Administratively, in the 21st ce ...

railway workshops. He was a councillor on

Glasgow City Council Glasgow City Council is the local government authority for the City of Glasgow, Scotland. It was created in 1996 under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, largely with the boundaries of the post-1975 City of Glasgow district of the S ...

from 1962 and of the city's Housing and Health Licensing Court. McMillan was

member of parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

for Glasgow Central from 1966 until 1980, when he died at a hospital in London due to injuries sustained falling from a bus two weeks prior. The resulting by-election was won by

Bob McTaggart Robert McTaggart (2 November 1945 – 23 March 1989) was a Scottish politician who served as a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Central (UK Parliament constituency), Glasgow Central, representing the L ...

, who himself also died in office in 1989.

References

*''Times Guide to the House of Commons'', 1966 & 1979 *

External links

* 1919 births 1980 deaths Councillors in Glasgow Road incident deaths in London Scottish Labour councillors Scottish Labour MPs Machinists Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Glasgow constituencies National Union of Railwaymen-sponsored MPs UK MPs 1966–1970 UK MPs 1970–1974 UK MPs 1974 UK MPs 1974–1979 UK MPs 1979–1983 {{Scotland-Labour-UK-MP-stub