death_date children constituency_mp birth_date term_end alma_mater death_place leader term_start spouse name predecessor parliament birth_place party office religion successor article_title
25 august 1998 3 north east scotland 17 february 1941 25 august 1998 25 august 1998 university university of glasgow of tübingen university of marburg university of edinburgh aberdeen , scotland alex salmond 25 september 1992 9 june 1994 anne forsyth -lrb- m. 1963-1998 -rrb- '' ` dr allan macartney '' ' jim sillars henry mccubbin european accra , gold coast -lrb- now ghana -rrb- scottish national party depute leader of the scottish national party church of scotland john swinney '' position abolished '' allan macartney

allan macartney

dr william john allan macartney -lrb- 17 february 1941 in accra , gold coast , now ghana -- 25 august 1998 in aberdeen -rrb- was a scottish national party -lrb- snp -rrb- mep for the north east scotland constituency between the 1994 european parliament election and his sudden death from a heart attack in 1998 .
born in africa , the son of a church of scotland minister , his family soon returned to scotland and he was schooled in elgin , moray .
he studied at the universities of tübingen and marburg in germany , and then at the universities of edinburgh -lrb- graduating in economic science in 1962 -rrb- and glasgow .
upon completing his studies he returned to africa as a voluntary secondary schoolteacher in eastern nigeria -lrb- 1963-1964 -rrb- .
he then worked as a lecturer in government and administration at the university of botswana , lesotho and swaziland from 1966 to 1974 .
upon returning to scotland , he continued his academic career , serving as staff tutor in politics at the open university from 1975 to 1994 .
he founded the unit for the study of government in scotland at the university of edinburgh , and was elected rector of the university of aberdeen .
he became the snp depute leader in 1992 .
he was a founder of the federation of student nationalists , and the founder and provost of the scottish self-government college .
at the north east scotland by-election , 1998 , caused by allan macartney 's death , ian hudghton held the seat for the snp with a substantially increased majority .
in 2006 , an internship was launched by the snp named after dr. macartney .
its aims are to encourage young people to take an interest in european and scottish politics .
applicants do not have to be members of the snp .
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