John MacKay (politician)

John MacKay (politician)

John Jackson MacKay, Baron MacKay of Ardbrecknish (15 November 1938 – 21 February 2001) was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician.

He was Member of Parliament for Argyll from 1979 to 1983, and after boundary changes, for Argyll and Bute (UK Parliament constituency) from 1983 to 1987, when he lost the seat to the Liberal candidate Mrs Ray Michie. MacKay had been Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1982 to 1987. Following his defeat, he was given a life peerage as Baron MacKay of Ardbrecknish, of Tayvallich in the District of Argyll and Bute. He rejoined the government as a Lord in Waiting in 1993. In January 1994, he joined the Department of Transport as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, being promoted later that year to become Minister of State at the Department of Social Security, a post he held until 1997. In opposition, he served as Deputy Leader of the Conservative peers. He died in 2001 at the age of 62.

References

*Times Guide to the House of Commons 1987
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