Bruce Millan
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Bruce Millan (5 October 1927 – 21 February 2013) was a British Labour politician who served as a European Commissioner from 1989 to 1995.
Early life
Bruce Millan was born in Dundee, the son of a shipyard caulker and a jute weaver, and educated at Harris Academy in the city.<ref name=Telegraph_obit>Template:Cite news</ref> He was active in the Labour League of Youth while at school, and after it he undertook his national service with the Royal Corps of Signals while studying at the same time for accountancy examinations.<ref name=ODNB>Template:Cite ODNB</ref> He became a chartered accountant in 1950.<ref>Template:Who's Who</ref>
Millan married Gwendoline May Fairey on 22 August 1953. The couple had a son and a daughter.<ref name=ODNB />
Parliamentary career
Millan unsuccessfully contested West Renfrewshire in the 1951 general election and Glasgow Craigton in that of 1955.
He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Craigton at the 1959 general election and served for that seat, and after its abolition in 1983 for Glasgow Govan, until 1988.<ref name=Guardian_obit>Template:Cite news</ref> He served in the Wilson government of 1964–1970 as Under-Secretary of State for the Air Force from 1964 to 1966, as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1966 to 1970, and in the Callaghan government of 1976–1979 as Secretary of State for Scotland;<ref name=BBCobit>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp he subsequently served as Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland under new leader Michael Foot. At the time of the 1981 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election, the first time Millan won election to the Shadow Cabinet, he was described by The Glasgow Herald as being identified with the "Centre-to-right" of the Labour Party.<ref name="GH20111981">Template:Cite news</ref>
After Parliament
Millan left Parliament in 1988, by applying for the Chiltern Hundreds, in order to take up the post of European Commissioner for Regional Policy and Cohesion, which he held until 1995.<ref name=BBCobit /> The vacancy he left was filled by Jim Sillars of the SNP in the noteworthy Glasgow Govan by-election of 1988.<ref name=Herald_obit>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1991, Millan received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Between 1999 and 2001 he chaired the Millan Committee, which proposed reforms to the provision of mental health care in Scotland.<ref name=BBCobit /><ref name=Herald_obit /><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp
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- Alumni of the University of Dundee
- Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff-sponsored MPs
- British European commissioners
- Deaths from pneumonia in Scotland
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- Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Glasgow constituencies
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Ministers in the Wilson governments, 1964–1970
- People educated at Harris Academy
- Politicians from Dundee
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