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'Tireless' Lib Dem stalwart dies | 'Tireless' Lib Dem stalwart dies |
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The former MP for Argyll and Bute, Ray Michie, has died at the age of 74. | The former MP for Argyll and Bute, Ray Michie, has died at the age of 74. |
The daughter of Lord and Lady Bannerman of Kildonan, she chaired the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 1991 until 1993. | |
She was elected to the Argyll seat in 1987 and remained MP until she stood down from parliament in 2001, becoming a member of the House of Lords. | |
A champion of the Gaelic language, she became the first peer to take the oath of allegiance in Gaelic as Baroness Michie of Gallanach. | |
The area's current MP, Alan Reid, said she worked tirelessly for her constituents in the Commons and continued this work in the Lords. | |
"The people of Argyll and Bute will always have a special place in their hearts for Ray Michie," he said. | "The people of Argyll and Bute will always have a special place in their hearts for Ray Michie," he said. |
Home rule | |
She was educated at Aberdeen High School for Girls, Landsdowne House in Edinburgh and the Edinburgh College of Speech Therapy, before becoming a speech therapist. | |
Baroness Michie served as the Liberal Democrat spokeswoman on Scottish affairs and was a member of the House of Commons select committee on Scottish affairs from 1992 to 1997. | |
A strong advocate of home rule, she was a participant in the early days of the Constitutional Convention. | |
She was a member of a number of other bodies, including Gaelic organisation An Comunn GÃ idhealach, the National Farmers' Union of Scotland and the Scottish Crofters Union, and was also vice-president of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. | |
Married to a consultant physician, the mother-of-three lived in Oban. |