Malcolm MacEwen

Malcolm MacEwen (24 December 1911 – 11 May 1996) was a Scottish conservationist and communist activist.

Born in Inverness, MacEwen was the son of Alexander MacEwen, first leader of the Scottish National Party. He was educated at Rossall School in England, as his father hoped he would not acquire a strong Scottish accent. He studied forestry at the University of Aberdeen, during which time he lost a leg in a car accident. He also joined the Labour Party, and served as a councillor in Banff for a time. However, he decided to requalify as a lawyer, studying at the University of Edinburgh, where he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Soon after this graduation he found work as a lawyer for the Scottish Daily Worker, a short-lived edition of the communist Daily Worker newspaper.

When the Scottish Daily Worker ceased publication, MacEwen began working directly for the CPGB as the party's North East England District Secretary. He stood for the party in the Dunbartonshire by-election, 1941, the party's last contest before joining a political truce during World War II; he took 15.0% of the votes cast in a two-way race.

MacEwen's wife and daughter died of diabetes-related complications in the 1940s. By this time, he was based in London, again working as a lawyer for the Daily Worker, then later became the paper's foreign correspondent, and as its House of Commons correspondent. He stood again for the party in Glasgow Shettleston at the 1950 general election, taking just 4.1% of the vote.

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