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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Donald Dewar, Robert Horne, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan, Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Lord William Bentinck, Helen McElhone, James Maxton, Mohammad Sarwar, Teddy Taylor, Margaret Curran, Thomas McKinnon Wood, Tom Harris, Walter Elliot, John Robertson, Margo MacDonald, George Nicoll Barnes, Mary McAlister, Hugh Brown, John McGovern, John Wheatley, Jim Sillars, Ann McKechin, David Marshall, John Smith Clarke, Bruce Millan, Mitchell Henry, Willie Bain, Maria Fyfe, John Maxton, Anas Sarwar, Charles MacAndrew, 1st Baron MacAndrew, Charles Dickson, Lord Dickson, Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, 10th Baronet, Archibald Corbett, 1st Baron Rowallan, Jack Browne, Baron Craigton, Jimmy Wray, Neil Carmichael, Baron Carmichael of Kelvingrove, William Grant, Lord Grant, Neil Maclean, John Rankin, Alice Cullen, James Carmichael, William Small, Harry Selby, George Buchanan, William Reid, Frank McElhone, Daniel Turner Holmes, James Bennett, Thomas McMillan, James McInnes, Thomas Benjamin Stratton Adair, James Brown Couper, James Parker Smith, Charles Stuart McFarlane, Arthur Stewart Leslie Young, John George Alexander Baird, Andrew Young, Andrew Mitchell Torrance, William Gordon Bennett, Robert John Collie. Excerpt: Michael John Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, PC (born 3 July 1945) is a British politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Springburn from 1979 to 2005, and then for Glasgow North East until 2009. He was a Labour Party MP until his election as the Speaker of the House of Commons in 2000, and was Speaker for nine years until his resignation in 2009. On his election to the post of Speaker in 2000 he was the first Roman Catholic to serve in the role since the Reformation. He resigned from the position on 21 June 2009 as a result of diminishing parliamentary and public confidence owing to ...
