Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh
and
Member of Parliament for Berwick & East Lothian.
The memorial plaque in Gifford
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John Mackintosh was educated at
Melville College, Edinburgh and at the
Universities of Edinburgh and
Oxford and at Princeton.
He was twice a graduate of Edinburgh, once with a first-class MA in
modern history, and again with a D.Litt for his published work,
of
which "The British Cabinet" (1962) and "British government and
politics" (1970) were the seminal works of their day.
He held academic posts in the Universities of Glasgow, Ibadan,
Strathclyde and (Visiting) Birkbeck College,
London as well as at
Edinburgh, where he
was Lecturer in Politics from 1954 to 1961,
and
was appointed to the Chair in 1977.
Mackintosh was Labour MP for Berwick & East Lothian from 1966 until
his death,
except for a few
months in 1974.
A popular lecturer who
always drew large and enthusiastic audiences, John Mackintosh was
known
also as a writer and television commentator on current
political affairs. |
