Norman Macfarlane, Baron Macfarlane of Bearsden

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Norman Somerville Macfarlane, Baron Macfarlane of Bearsden, Template:Post-nominals (5 March 1926 – 5 November 2021) was a Scottish industrialist and member of the House of Lords who sat as a Conservative.[1]

Biography

Educated at the High School of Glasgow and later a Royal Artillery Officer in the British military personnel of the Palestine Emergency, Macfarlane was a Member of the Council of the Confederation of British Industry (Scotland) from 1975 to 1981, a Board Member of the Scottish Development Agency from 1979 to 1987, and a Member of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland from 1980 to 1982.[1] Macfarlane received a knighthood on 9 February 1983,[2] was a Deputy Lieutenant and was created a life peer with the title Baron Macfarlane of Bearsden, in the District of Bearsden and Milngavie, for the Conservative Party, on 29 July 1991[1][3] and made a Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle on 3 December 1996.[4] He retired from the House of Lords on 21 July 2016.[5]

Macfarlane was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1992, 1993 and 1997.[1] He had been a member of Glasgow Art Club since 1969.[6] In 1991, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[7] Macfarlane was Honorary Patron of Queen's Park Football Club.[8]

Death

Macfarlane died on 5 November 2021, at the age of 95.[9][10]

Arms

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References

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  5. ↑ Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden – UK Parliament
  6. ↑ Glasgow Arts Club; retrieved 17 August 2011
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