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Donald Macaulay, Baron Macaulay of Bragar, QC (14 November 1933 – 12 June 2014) was a British Labour politician and member of the
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. He was educated at
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and
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, where he read law. He became an
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at the Scottish Bar in 1963 and a
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in 1975. He contested
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at the 1970 general election. He served on the Bryden Committee on the visual identification of suspects following the Devlin Report of 1976. He was created a
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as Baron Macaulay of Bragar, of
Bragar Bragar (, ) is a village on the west side of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, from the island's only town, Stornoway. Bragar is within the parish of Barvas, and is situated on the A858 between Carloway and Barvas. Residents ...
in the County of
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on 9 January 1989. He served as Opposition spokesman for Scottish Legal Affairs in the 1990s. Lord Macaulay died on 12 June 2014.House of Lords Hansard, 16 June 2014
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*Burke's Peerage 1933 births 2014 deaths Labour Party (UK) life peers People educated at Clydebank High School Scottish King's Counsel Scottish barristers Alumni of the University of Glasgow Life peers created by Elizabeth II {{Life-peer-stub