About Allan Campbell McLean
Lived 1922 – 1989 (aged 66–67). Allan Campbell McLean was a writer.
Allan Campbell McLean (18 November 1922 – 27 October 1989) was a British writer and political activist.
Biography McLean was born on Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness, then in Lancashire, and educated at Barrow-in-Furness Technical School. He further courted controversy when he resigned from Labour's Scottish working party on crofting rights in 1976, after the Government rejected its proposal that crofting land be fully nationalised. Although McLean never seriously harboured parliamentary ambitions, he had previously been the Labour candidate for Inverness at the 1964 and 1966 general elections.
He received awards for the following works: The Islander (1962), Niven Award The Glasshouse (1968), Arts Council Award
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