George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
|
The Right Honourable The Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT GCMG PC FRSA FRSE |
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| 10th Secretary General of NATO | |
|
In office 14 October 1999 – 5 January 2004 |
|
| Preceded by | Javier Solana |
| Succeeded by | Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo (Acting) |
| Secretary of State for Defence | |
|
In office 3 May 1997 – 11 October 1999 |
|
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Michael Portillo |
| Succeeded by | Geoff Hoon |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland | |
|
In office 21 October 1993 – 2 May 1997 |
|
| Leader |
John Smith Margaret Beckett (Acting) Tony Blair |
| Preceded by | Tom Clarke |
| Succeeded by | Jacqui Lait (2001) |
|
Member of Parliament for Hamilton South Hamilton (1978–1997) |
|
|
In office 31 May 1978 – 24 August 1999 |
|
| Preceded by | Alexander Wilson |
| Succeeded by | William Tynan |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
George Islay MacNeill Robertson 12 April 1946 Port Ellen, Scotland |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | University of Dundee |
George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, KT, GCMG, PC, FRSA, FRSE (born 12 April 1946) is a British Labour Party politician who was the tenth Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, between October 1999 and early January 2004; he succeeded Javier Solana in that position. He served as Defence Secretary for the United Kingdom from 1997 to 1999, before taking up his NATO position and becoming a life peer as Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, of Islay in Argyll and Bute.
Born in Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Scotland, the son of a policeman, he was educated at Dunoon Grammar School and studied economics at the Queen's College, Dundee. When he was 15 years of age, he was involved with protests against US nuclear submarines docking in Britain.
During Robertson's time at Queen's College it broke away from the University of St Andrews to become the University of Dundee, of which Robertson was one of the first graduates (MA, 1968), and one of a minority of graduates that year who opted to take a Dundee, rather than a St Andrews, degree. During his time at University he played a full part in student life. Notably he wrote a column for the student newspaper Annasach, launched in 1967, and took an active role in student protests. Robertson used his newspaper column to back the new University and encouraged his fellow students to take a University of Dundee degree (students who had started before 1967 could opt to take a degree from either the University of Dundee or the University of St Andrews).
...
Wikipedia