Malcolm MacDonald
Malcolm John MacDonald ( born January 17, 1901 in Lossiemouth, Moray, † 11 January 1981 Raspit Hill, Kent ) was a British scholar and politician of the Labour Party.
Life
The son of former Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in 1929 elected a deputy of the lower house.
In 1931 he was Under-Secretary at the Colonial Office ( Under- Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs ). In 1935, he was first Colonial Secretary ( Secretary of State for the Colonies ), and then from 1935 to 1938 Secretary of State for Dominions ( Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs ). Then he was again to 1940 Colonial Secretary, and at the same time to 1939 Secretary of State for Dominions. From 1940 to 1941 he was then Minister of Health. He was then to 1946 High Commissioner in Canada.
1946 to 1948 he was Governor General of Malaya, Singapore and British Borneo. Then MacDonald was until 1955 Commissioner-General in Southeast Asia. This was followed by five years as High Commissioner in India. In 1960 he was appointed head of the British delegation at the Geneva Conference Laos. He was also a 1949-1961 Chancellor of the University of Malaya, National University of Singapore today.
Later, he was first governor in 1963 and in the same year Governor General of Kenya. As such, he handed over power after the declaration of independence in 1964 to President Jomo Kenyatta. Then he remained until 1965 as High Commissioner to Kenya to observe the stabilization of independence. By 1970, he was special envoy of the British Prime Minister Harold Wilson for Africa.
Later, he was from 1971 to 1980 still Chancellor of the University of Durham. In this office he was succeeded by Dame Margot Fonteyn in 1980.