Janey Buchan

Janey O'Neil Buchan ( Kent; 30 April 1926 – 14 January 2012) was a Scottish Labour politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Glasgow constituency from 1979 to 1994.

Early life Jane Kent was born in Glasgow, a city where her father Joseph was a tram driver, and her mother Chrissie Sinclair was a domestic servant. She left school at the age of 14, and worked as a typist. Both parents were members of the Communist Party, and she was a member of the Young Communist League in her early life; she left the Communist Party after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was crushed by the Soviet Union.

Her lifetime of activity encompassed many fields. She was an early and active campaigner against apartheid and for nuclear disarmament. She was a supporter of Scottish traditional music and arts,

Personal life In 1946, at the age of 19 Jane Kent married Norman Buchan, a schoolteacher who later became Labour MP from 1964 for West Renfrewshire, and later Paisley South. She was survived by her brother, Enoch Kent, her son Alasdair (a journalist), four grandchildren and three great-grandsons.

The papers of Norman and Janey Buchan were donated to Glasgow Caledonian University. Her parliamentary papers are also archived. In 2019, she was one of the candidates for "Greatest Glaswegian" in the Glasgow Times.