Ian MacArthur
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Ian MacArthur (born 17 May 1925) is a British Conservative Party politician.
MacArthur was educated at Cheltenham College and Queen's College, Oxford. He worked as an associate director of a marketing and advertising company.
MacArthur contested Greenock twice in 1955, in the general election and a by-election. He was Member of Parliament for Perth and East Perthshire from 1959 to 1974. He was a whip 1963-65, as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1963-64. He then became an opposition Scottish affairs spokesman In February 1974 he was re-elected for that seat by 8,975 votes, but in October he lost by 793 votes to Douglas Crawford of the Scottish National Party. MacArthur was a government whip from 1962 to 1964.
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- Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 and October 1974
- This page incorporates information from Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page.