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词条 Donald Leach (physicist)
释义

  1. Background

  2. Professional career

  3. Political career

     Electoral record 

  4. References

Prof. Donald Frederick Leach CBE (24 June 1931 – 25 February 2009), was a Scottish physicist and Liberal Party politician who later joined the Labour Party.

Background

Leach was born the son of Frederick John Mansell Leach and Annie Ivy Foster. He was educated at John Ruskin Grammar School, Croydon Polytechnic, Norwood Technical College and Dundee College of Technology.[1] In 1952 he married June Valentine Reid. They had two sons and one daughter. He was appointed a CBE in 1996.[2]

Professional career

Leach was Visiting lecturer in mathematics at Dundee Technical College.[3] He was Head of Department of Mathematics, Napier College of Science and Technology,[4] and principal and then vice patron of Queen Margaret College.[5]

Political career

Leach was an Executive member of the Scottish Liberal Party. He was Liberal candidate for the Edinburgh West division at the 1959 General Election.[6] He was Liberal candidate for the East Fife division at the 1961 by-election. In 1964 he left the Liberals and joined the Labour Party.[7] He was Labour candidate for the Kinross and West Perthshire division at the 1970 General Election.[8] He did not stand for parliament again.[9]

Electoral record

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|title=General Election 1959: Edinburgh West
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Unionist Party (Scotland)
|candidate = Anthony Stodart
|votes = 25,976
|percentage = 56.49
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = James K Stocks
|votes = 14,044
|percentage = 30.54
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate =Donald Leach
|votes = 5,962
|percentage = 12.97
|change =
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|votes = 11,932
|percentage = 25.95
|change =
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|votes =
|percentage = 80.26
|change =
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|winner = Unionist Party (Scotland)
|swing =
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|title=East Fife by-election, 1961[10]
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|party = Unionist Party (Scotland)
|candidate = John Gilmour
|votes = 15,948
|percentage = 47.4
|change = −22.2
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate = John Smith
|votes = 8,882
|percentage = 26.4
|change = −3.6
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|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate =Donald Leach
|votes = 8,786
|percentage = 26.2
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|votes = 7,066
|percentage = 21.02
|change = −18.9
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|votes = 33,616
|percentage =
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}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Unionist Party (Scotland)
|swing = −9.3
}}{{Election box end}}{{Election box begin | title=General Election 1970: Kinross and Western Perthshire
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Conservative Party (UK)
|candidate =Alec Douglas-Home
|votes = 14,434
|percentage = 57.4
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Scottish National Party
|candidate = Elizabeth Y. Whitley
|votes = 4,670
|percentage = 18.6
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Labour Party (UK)
|candidate =Donald Leach
|votes = 3,827
|percentage = 15.2
|change =
}}{{Election box candidate with party link|
|party = Liberal Party (UK)
|candidate = John Calder
|votes = 2,228
|percentage = 8.9
|change =
}}{{Election box majority|
|votes = 9,764
|percentage = 38.8
|change =
}}{{Election box turnout|
|votes = 25,159
|percentage = 74.0
|change =
}}{{Election box hold with party link|
|winner = Conservative Party (UK)
|swing = +0.8
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References

1. ^The Times House of Commons 1970
2. ^‘LEACH, Prof. Donald Frederick’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 3 Aug 2017
3. ^The Times House of Commons 1959
4. ^The Times House of Commons 1970
5. ^{{cite web|title=Professor Donald Leach was instrumental in success of QMC|url=http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/professor-donald-leach-was-instrumental-in-success-of-qmc-1-1193919|website=www.scotsman.com|publisher=The Scotsman|accessdate=3 August 2017}}
6. ^The Times House of Commons 1959
7. ^The Scotsman 2 March 2009
8. ^The Times House of Commons 1970
9. ^British Parliamentary Election Results 1973-1983, FWS Craig
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.by-elections.co.uk/61.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325095631/http://www.by-elections.co.uk/61.html|title=1961 By Election Results|archive-date=2012-03-25|dead-url=yes|access-date=2015-08-17}}
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5 : 1931 births|2009 deaths|Liberal Party (UK) politicians|Labour Party (UK) politicians|Alumni of Croydon College

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