Personal Life
MacCormick was survived by two sons. The first, Iain, served as SNP Member of Parliament for Argyll from 1974 till 1979 (and was a founder member of the Social Democratic Party in 1981), and his second son Neil was Professor of Law and Vice-Principal of the University of Edinburgh and elected an SNP Member of the European Parliament in 1999. His family came from Mull, and he was related to the Scottish Gaelic novelist of the same name.
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