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| | The Scotsman - Politics - Husband of SNP veteran Winnie Ewing dies in fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | He is survived by four parliamentarians: Mrs Ewing, MSP and "mother" of the Scottish Parliament, his son Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, his daughter Annabelle Ewing, MP for Perth, and Fergus’s wife Margaret Ewing, MSP for Moray. |
 | | Mr Ewing, an accountant by profession, was heavily involved in the party and was credited as the major force behind his wife’s historic victory in the 1967 Hamilton by-election. |
 | | Ms Ewing, 73, is standing down at the Holyrood elections in May. As the eldest MSP, she opened the Scottish Parliament and took the honorary title "mother" of the House. |
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