- Janey Buchan
Janey O'Neil Buchan (née Kent), (b.
April 30 ,1926 ,Glasgow ) was a Scottish Labour MEP for the Glasgow constituency from 1979 to 1994 when she retired from the post under pressure from modernisers within the party.Her father was a
tram driver, and her mother adomestic servant . She left school at the age of 14, as was typical forworking class children at the time, and worked as atypist . At the age of 19 she marriedNorman Buchan , who was a Labour MP from 1964 till his death in 1990 for West Renfrewshire and latterly Paisley South.She attended commercial college and was a councillor on
Strathclyde Regional Council from 1974 to 1979, when she was first elected to theEuropean Parliament (in the first elections to that institution). Whilst an MEP she sat on the European Parliament's Culture Committee as well as being involved in theScottish Arts Council andScottish Gas Consumers Council .She is the Life President of
Outright Scotland .External links
* [http://www.learningservices.gcal.ac.uk/specialcollections/collections/buchan/index.html The Norman & Janey Buchan Collection] ,
Glasgow Caledonian University
* [http://www.caledonian.ac.uk/politicalsong/research/buchan.html Them and Us: Reflections from Janey Buchan]
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