Willie Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock

William " Willie" Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock, MBE ( born April 7, 1911 in Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, † 10 June 1988) was a British Labour Party politician and longtime Scotland minister ( Secretary of State for Scotland).

Biography

The son of a Lokührers studied after visiting Ayr Academy at the University of Glasgow and was after graduation worked as a teacher. During the Second World War he did his military service in the Highland Light Infantry in India, Burma and Singapore and most recently served as an officer in the headquarters of Major Louis Mountbatten in Ceylon. For his services he was appointed in 1945 a member of the Order of the British Empire.

His political career began in 1946 when he at a by-election ( By-election ) as a member of the lower house (House of Commons ) was chosen as the candidate of the Labour Party and in this until 1979, the constituency represented Kilmarnock.

In October 1964 he was appointed Minister of Scotland ( Secretary of State for Scotland ) by Prime Minister Harold Wilson for the first time and held this office until the end of Wilson's first term in office in June 1970. Between March 1974 and April 1976, he was again Minister of Scotland in the second government of Harold Wilson. He was thus the Scotland minister with the overall longest tenure.

As Scotland minister, he was largely responsible for the founding of the development agency for the Highlands and Islands ( Highlands and Islands Development Board ) and the Scottish Development Agency ( Scottish Development Agency).

After retiring from the House, he was raised as a life peer with the title of Baron Ross of Marnock, of Kilmarnock in the District of Kilmarnock and Loudoun to the peerage on 24 July 1979 and was as such until his death in the upper house ( House of Lords ) to.

Swell

• CHAMBERS Biographical Dictionary, pp. 1308, 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2