Alex Fergusson

Alex Fergusson MSP
3rd Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office  14 May 2007
Preceded by	George Reid
Member of the Scottish Parliament for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
Incumbent
Assumed office  1 May 2003
Preceded by	Alasdair Morgan
Majority	3,333 (11.0%)
Member of the Scottish Parliament for South of Scotland
In office 6 May 1999 – 1 May 2003
Born	8 April 1949 (1949-04-08) (age 60) Leswalt, United Kingdom
Political party	Scottish Conservative Party

Alex Fergusson (born 8 April 1949, Leswalt, Wigtownshire) is a Conservative politician and Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament. He has been Member of the Scottish Parliament for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale since 2003. He was previously a member for the South of Scotland region from 1999.

Born in rural Wigtownshire in the conservative South of Scotland, he was educated at Britain's most famous school, Eton. From 1971 until 1999 he ran a farm in the South Ayrshire village of Barr, and as a farmer before his election, he was Conservative spokesman for Agriculture and Forestry in the Scottish Parliament. After holding his seat at the 2007 election, on the 14 May he was elected by his fellow MSPs to succeed George Reid as Presiding Officer.^[1] As the office is non-partisan, he had to take voluntary suspension from his political party the Conservatives.

During the draw for the 2007-08 CIS Cup semi-finals, he mixed up the numbers and miscalled the teams, a mistake that was rectified later that day.

He is the Honorary President of English-Speaking Union Scotland

References

External links

• Alex Fergusson MSP profile at Scottish Parliament site
• Alex Fergusson MSP profile at the site of the Conservative Party
• Alex Fergusson MSP profile at personal website
• Alex Fergusson, countryside man, BBC profile

v • d • e      Members of the Scottish Parliament in the South of Scotland region Elected in the 2007 election Labour (5 seats), SNP (5 seats), Conservative (4 seats), Lib Dems (2 seats) Constituency MSPs John Scott (Con, Ayr) • Cathy Jamieson (Lab, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) • Karen Gillon (Lab, Clydesdale) • Irene Oldfather (Lab, Cunninghame South) • Elaine Murray (Lab, Dumfries) • Iain Gray (Lab, East Lothian) • Alex Fergusson (Presiding Officer, Galloway and Upper Nithsdale) • John Lamont (Con, Roxburgh and Berwickshire) • Jeremy Purvis (Lib Dem, Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale) Additional Members Derek Brownlee (Con) • Aileen Campbell (SNP) • Christine Grahame (SNP) • Jim Hume (Lib Dem) • Adam Ingram (SNP) • Alasdair Morgan (SNP) • Mike Russell (SNP)

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