Ian MacArthur

Ian MacArthur

Ian MacArthur (17 May 1925 - 30 November 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician.

MacArthur was educated at Cheltenham College and Queen's College, Oxford. He worked as an associate director of a marketing and advertising company.

MacArthur contested Greenock twice in 1955, in the general election and a by-election. He was Member of Parliament for Perth and East Perthshire from 1959 to 1974. He was a whip 1963-65, as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1963-64. He then became an opposition Scottish affairs spokesman.In February 1974 he was re-elected for that seat by 8,975 votes, but in October he lost by 793 votes to Douglas Crawford of the Scottish National Party. MacArthur was a government whip from 1962 to 1964.

References

*"Times Guide to the House of Commons", 1966 and October 1974
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