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| Affiliation | Labour |
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| Name | George Robertson |
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Argyll & Bute, , Scotland |
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April 12, 1946
(78 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
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| Info | George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, KT, GCMG, FRSA, PC (born 12 April 1946, in Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Scotland) was the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, between October 1999 and early January 2004; he succeeded Javier Solana in that position. He was six times elected to the United Kingdom House of Commons, was Chairman of the Labour Party in Scotland, and was appointed to the Privy Council.
He served as Defence Secretary for the United Kingdom from 1997 to 1999, before taking up his NATO position. After his retirement he was made a life peer as Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, of Islay in Argyll and Bute.
He has received numerous honours (including a total of 11 Honorary doctorates from various universities). Currently he holds directorships of several notable companies, including the Weir group and Cable and Wireless in his home country. He was educated at Dunoon Grammar School and later the University of Dundee, graduating in 1968 with a Master's degree (M.A.) in Economics. He is the father of three children, they are called Malcom, Martin and Rachel. He married Sandra on 1 June 1970. Robertson survived a serious car crash in January 1977 with a Navy Land Rover carrying 100lb of gelignite and a box of detonators, which hit his car head-on in the Drumochter Pass, leaving him two with wrecked knees and a broken jaw. Robertson was wearing a seat belt at the time and attributes his survival to this factor.
Robertson attracted some public criticism for his alleged role in the Dunblane massacre, most notably his alleged prior involvement with Thomas Hamilton, the two men's Masonic connections and the quashing of psychiatric objections to Hamilton's gun license. The allegations were groundless, and Robertson won a libel case against the website that had hosted the claims.
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