Person in history
Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn
Michael Martin, British politician (born 1945)
Life at a glance
- Died
- 2018 · April 29
Their story
Who they were
Michael John Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, was a Scottish politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 2000 and 2009. A member of the Labour Party prior to becoming speaker, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Springburn from 1979 to 2005 and for Glasgow North East until 2009. He was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons in 2000, remaining in the office for nine years until his involuntary resignation in 2009.
Early life
Early life Martin was born on 3 July 1945 in William Street in Glasgow , the son of a merchant seaman and a school cleaner. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was one of five children, [ 3 ] and was brought up in a tenement community in Anderston . The family later moved to Springburn when Michael was fourteen years old. [ 4 ] He attended St Patrick's Boys' School, leaving a few days before his fifteenth birthday to become an apprentice sheet metal worker at a factory called Heatovent. [ 1 ]
Why this date
Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn appears on our April 29 calendar for 2018 as a death entry.
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