Everything about Margaret Ewing totally explained
Margaret Bain Ewing (
1 September 1945 -
21 March 2006) was a
Scottish National Party (SNP)
Member of the Scottish Parliament.
She was born as
Margaret Anne McAdam, she attended the
University of Glasgow and the
University of Strathclyde, and was a teacher before being elected as
Member of Parliament (MP) for
East Dunbartonshire at the
October 1974 Election, by just 22 votes, when she was known as Margaret Bain. At one point she burst into tears in the House of Commons when a devolution proposal was defeated. With the downturn in SNP electoral fortunes at the
1979 Election she lost her seat in the
House of Commons.
She then worked as a freelance
journalist before being re-elected to
Westminster at the
1987 Election to represent
Moray, by which time she was known as Margaret Ewing. She held this seat until standing down at the
2001 general election to concentrate on
Holyrood. She stood for the leadership of the SNP in
1990 but lost out to
Alex Salmond despite the backing of many prominent SNP members (such as
Jim Sillars).
In
1999, at the
first Scottish Parliament Election she was returned to represent
Moray. She was returned again in
2003.
She was married twice: firstly to
Donald Bain in
1968 (divorced
1980) and secondly to fellow
MSP Fergus Ewing in
1983, who is the son of
Winnie Ewing. She died from
breast cancer, aged 60. In August 2005 she'd announced that she wasn't seeking reelection in the
2007 Scottish Parliament elections.
The
SNP comfortably retained her vacant seat at the
by-election which took place on
27 April 2006.
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