David McLetchie MSP
Born in 1952, David McLetchie attended Leith Academy and George Heriot’s School in Edinburgh. He studied law at Edinburgh University where he gained an LLB (Hons) graduating in 1974.
He qualified as a solicitor in 1976 and joined Tods Murray WS in Edinburgh becoming a partner in 1980 and latterly heading the department dealing with tax, estates and trusts.
Active in Young Conservatives and Conservative student politics from 1968, he was the Conservative candidate for Edinburgh Central in the 1979 General Election.
He has held numerous senior positions within the Scottish Conservative Party at constituency and national level and was President of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association from 1994-1997. In September 1998 he was elected to lead the Party’s campaign in the first election to the Scottish Parliament held in 1999. He was returned as a regional list member for Lothians. In the 2003 election he won the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency which he held with an increased majority in 2007. David was the leader of the Scottish Conservative MSPs from 1999-2005. He is now the Chief Whip and Business Manager for the Scottish Conservative MSPs.
David is married to Sheila, a theatre nurse at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. He has a 27 year old son James, by his first marriage to his late wife Barbara. His interests include playing golf (9 handicap), watching Heart of Midlothian FC, listening to music and reading crime fiction.
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