Donald Maclean (British politician)
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The Right Honourable Sir Donald Maclean KBE |
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| Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office 14 December 1918 – 12 February 1920 |
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| Monarch | George V |
| Prime Minister | David Lloyd George |
| Preceded by | H. H. Asquith |
| Succeeded by | H. H. Asquith |
| President of the Board of Education | |
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In office 25 August 1931 – 15 June 1932 |
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| Prime Minister | Ramsay MacDonald |
| Preceded by | Hastings Lees-Smith |
| Succeeded by | Edward Wood |
| President of the Liberal Party | |
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In office 1923 – 14 October 1926 |
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| Leader | H. H. Asquith |
| Preceded by | J. M. Robertson |
| Succeeded by | J. A. Spender |
| Member of Parliament for North Cornwall |
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In office 30 May 1929 – 15 June 1932 |
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| Preceded by | Alfred Williams |
| Succeeded by | Francis Acland |
| Member of Parliament for Peebles and Southern Midlothian Peebles and Selkirk (1910–1918) |
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In office 19 December 1910 – 15 November 1922 |
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| Preceded by | William Younger |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Westwood |
| Member of Parliament for Bath |
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In office 8 February 1906 – 10 February 1910 |
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| Preceded by | Edmond Wodehouse |
| Succeeded by | Lord Alexander Thynne |
| Personal details | |
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Donald Maclean 9 January 1864 Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire |
| Died | 15 June 1932 (aged 68) London |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Gwendolen Margaret Devitt (m. 1907; his death 1932) |
Sir Donald Maclean, KBE (9 January 1864 – 15 June 1932) was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Leader of the Opposition between 1918 and 1920 and served in Ramsay MacDonald's National Government as President of the Board of Education between 1931 and his death in June of the following year.
Born in Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire, Maclean was the eldest son of John Maclean, a cordwainer originally of Kilmoluaig, Tiree in the Inner Hebrides, and his wife Agnes Macmellin.
Maclean practised as a solicitor with practices in Cardiff and Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. A member of the Presbyterian Church of England, he was vice-president of the Cardiff Free Church Council in 1902-3, and also worked closely with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He was a last-minute choice as one of the Liberal Party candidates in Bath at the 1900 general election, but was defeated at the polls. At the 1906 general election, he stood again and was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the constituency. Whilst an MP he voted in favour of the 1908 Women's Enfranchisement Bill.
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