Elspeth Attwooll

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Elspeth Attwooll MEP
Elspeth Attwooll

Member of the European Parliament
for Scotland
Incumbent
Assumed office 
10 June 1999

Born 1 February 1943 (1943-02-01) (age 65)
Chislehurst,Kent
Nationality British
Political party Liberal Democrat
Website Elspeth Attwoll MEP

Elspeth Attwooll (born 1 February 1943, Chislehurst, Kent) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician. She is a Member of the European Parliament for Scotland.

She has stood as a parliamentary candidate for Glasgow Maryhill in every general election from October 1974 to 1997. She was part of the Liberal Democrat delegation to the Scottish Constitutional Convention. She was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999, the first Liberal Democrat ever to be elected to the European Parliament from Scotland, and retained her seat in 2004.

Previously, Elspeth Attwooll taught jurisprudence and legal theory at the University of Glasgow.

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