Sam Galbraith

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Sam Galbraith , (born October 18, 1945 in Clitheroe , Lancashire , † August 18, 2014 in Glasgow ) was a Scottish politician of English descent and a member of the Labor Party . He studied at the University of Glasgow and then worked as a neurosurgeon.

Life

Born in Clitheroe, he later attended Greenock High School and studied medicine at the University of Glasgow . He was a noted neurosurgeon at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow. Galbraith was married and had three daughters. Like his sister, Galbraith suffered from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and received a lung transplant at Freeman's Hospital in Newcastle in 1990. Since 2006 he has been chairman of the Scottish Maritime Museum. He died on August 18, 2014 and was considered to be one of the longest living with a lung transplant.

British House of Commons

For the first time Galbraith appeared in the British general election in 1987 to elections at the national level. He won the direct mandate of his constituency Strathkelvin and Bearsden and entered the British House of Commons . Between 1988 and 1992 he was party spokesman for Scotland and Health. Galbraith defended his mandate in the general election in 1992 and 1997 . Galbraith did not run for the next general election in 2001 . The constituency mandate went to his party colleague John Lyons .

Scottish Parliament

In the first Scottish general election in 1999, Galbraith ran for the direct mandate of the constituency of Strathkelvin and Bearsden . He won the elections by a clear margin over the SNP candidate Fiona McLeod . Following the election, he was appointed Minister for Children and Education; then in November 2000 as State Secretary for the Environment, Sport and Culture. In May 2001, Galbraith resigned his seat in the Scottish Parliament for health reasons . Galbraith's party colleague Brian Fitzpatrick won the elections due in the Strathkelvin and Bearsden constituency . Since there were general elections in June of the same year, Galbraith retained his lower house mandate until the end of the legislative period.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Former Scottish minister Sam Galbraith dies Evening Times, Aug. 18, 2014.
  2. ↑ Torcuil Crichton: Former Scottish Education Minister Sam Galbraith dies, aged 68 . Daily Record, Aug. 18, 2014.
  3. ↑ Resignation calls fall on deaf ears . BBC News, Aug. 14, 2000
  4. ↑ a b Sam Galbraith: Electoral history and profile . ( August 19, 2014 memento on Internet Archive ) Profile on guardian.co.uk; Retrieved August 18, 2014
  5. ↑ BBC News - Former Scottish minister Sam Galbraith dies . In: BBC Online , August 18, 2014. 
  6. ^ Results of the general election of June 11, 1987. politicsresources.net, accessed on August 18, 2014.
  7. ^ Results of the general election of April 9, 1992. politicsresources.net, accessed on August 18, 2014.
  8. ↑ a b Results of the general election of May 1997 and June 2001 in the constituency of Strathkelvin & Bearsden. politicsresources.net, accessed August 18, 2014.
  9. ↑ Results of the Scottish General Election 1999 on the Scottish Parliament website
  10. ↑ a b Sam Galbraith. Scottish Parliament information
  11. ↑ Outgoing minister puts health first . BBC News, March 20, 2001
  12. ^ Holyrood resolved by elections . BBC News, June 8, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Galbraith, Sam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician of English descent and a member of the Labor Party
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Clitheroe , Lancashire
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 2014
Place of death Glasgow