Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg, known as Derry Irvine, is a Scottish lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor from 1997 to 2003.
Official portrait, c. 2001
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Donald Campbell Dewar was a Scottish statesman and politician who served as the first first minister of Scotland from 1999 until his death in 2000 and leader of the Labour Party in Scotland from 1998
Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg
…University of Glasgow, where he became involved in debating through the Glasgow University Dialectic Society and Glasgow University Union; he befriended Donald Dewar and John Smith through his involvement in the societies. Irvine subsequently studied English law at Christ's College, Cambridge. After teaching law at…
Dewar in 1999
Dewar attended The Glasgow Academy, which at the time, was an all boys independent school in Hillhead.
Dewar, c. 1999
Dewar chairs the first reconvened Scottish Cabinet as First Minister