Ian MacArthur

Who was Ian MacArthur?

Ian MacArthur was 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 until his defeat at the October 1974 general election, when he lost by 793 votes to Douglas Crawford of the Scottish National Party.

In the House of Commons he was a whip 1963-65, as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1963-64. He then became an opposition Scottish affairs spokesman.

He married Judith MacArthur and had 7 children; Niall MacArthur, Alex MacArthur, Duncan MacArthur, Ruaidhri MacArthur, Lucy MacArthur, Janie MacArthur, and Gavin MacArthur.