Alex Fergusson (politician)

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Alex Fergusson

Sir Alex Fergusson (born April 8, 1949 in Leswalt ; † July 31, 2018 ) was a Scottish politician and member of the Conservative Party .

Life

Fergusson attended Eton College and then moved to New Zealand for two years . Upon his return he graduated with a degree in agricultural science from the West of Scotland Agricultural College . He then worked in agriculture for many years and was involved, among other things, as President of the Blackface Sheepbreeders Association and as a member of the Scottish Landowners Federation .

Fergusson was married and had three sons.

Political career

For the first time Fergusson ran in the first Scottish general election in 1999 to national elections. In his constituency Galloway and Upper Nithsdale , however, he received only the second highest number of votes behind the SNP candidate Alasdair Morgan and thus missed the direct mandate of the constituency. However, since Fergusson was also listed on the regional electoral list of the Conservatives for the electoral region South of Scotland in first place, he received one of the four list mandates of the Conservatives in this electoral region and moved into the newly created Scottish Parliament as a result of the election result .

In the parliamentary elections in 2003 , he won the direct mandate of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale for the first time with a lead of only 99 votes and defended it in the following parliamentary elections in 2007 . In the newly formed cabinet, Fergusson was elected speaker of parliament, replacing the SNP politician George Reid . In order to maintain neutrality, his membership in the Conservative Party was suspended for the duration of his term of office. In the following term, Tricia Marwick was elected spokeswoman. In the course of constituency reform in 2011, the constituency of Galloway and Upper Nithsdale was dissolved and largely replaced by the newly created constituency of Galloway and West Dumfries . Fergusson ran for this in the 2011 parliamentary elections and again narrowly won the direct mandate.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary - Sir Alex Fergusson, farmer-turned-politician and former presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament
  2. ↑ a b Information from the Scottish Parliament ( Memento from July 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Biographical information ( Memento from April 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Information from the Conservative Party ( Memento from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  6. ↑ Entry on alba.org.uk ( Memento from July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Results of the general election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  8. ^ Results of the general election 2003 on the Scottish Parliament website
  9. ↑ Results of the 2007 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
  10. ↑ BBC News: Alex Fergusson, countryside man
  11. ↑ Results of the 2011 general election on the Scottish Parliament website
personal data
SURNAME Fergusson, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Leswalt
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 2018