He was educated at the independent George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, and the University of Glasgow, where he received an MA in Politics and Economics in 1972 and was president of the union.
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He married Bridget Prentice (née Corr), later also an MP, whom he had met while at university, on 20 December 1975.
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