George Mackie, Baron Mackie of Benshie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Mackie, Baron Mackie of Benshie

Scottish politician

Date of Birth: 10-Jul-1919

Place of Birth: Tarves, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Feb-2015

Profession: politician, farmer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About George Mackie, Baron Mackie of Benshie

  • George Yull Mackie, Baron Mackie of Benshie CBE DSO DFC (10 July 1919 – 17 February 2015) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician. After World War II in which he served as a decorated airman with RAF Bomber Command, Mackie took over a farm at Benshie, Angus, and subsequently set up a cattle ranch at Braeroy, Inverness-shire, near Spean Bridge.
  • Having first contested South Angus in 1959, he was elected Member of Parliament for Caithness and Sutherland in 1964.
  • In the Commons he served as Scottish Liberal whip.
  • He lost his seat in 1966, when he was defeated by Labour candidate Robert Maclennan.
  • Maclennan eventually became a senior Social Democrat Party/Liberal Democrat politician in the 1980s.
  • Mackie contested Caithness and Sutherland again in 1970, but lost by a wider margin. Having been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1971, he was given a life peerage, as Baron Mackie of Benshie, of Kirriemuir in the County of Angus on 10 May 1974.
  • In the House of Lords, he served as Agriculture and Scottish Affairs spokesman for the Liberals and their successor parties between 1975 and 2000.
  • Having been Chair of the Scottish Liberal Party from 1965 to 1970, he was its president between 1983 and 1988.
  • In 1980, he was elected to serve a term as Rector of the University of Dundee. His older brothers were Sir Maitland Mackie and John Mackie, Baron John-Mackie. Until his death, Mackie was the oldest living person to have served as a Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom.
  • His death was announced on 17 February 2015.
  • He was 95 years old.Lord Mackie's papers are held by Archive Services at the University of Dundee.

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