S6 "Talking Points" : James Maxton Memorial Lecture. Dr Chris Carman, University of Strathclyde.
Date: Friday 10 September 2010
Time: 11:30 - 12:30
Location: Auditorium, Beaton Road Fotheringay Centre
Christopher J. Carman (Ph.D., University of Houston) is the John Anderson Senior Research Lecturer in politics at the University of Strathclyde.
He previously taught at Glasgow, Pittsburgh and Rice Universities. His research specializes in the behavioral and institutional aspects of political representation.
He is a co-author of the forthcoming books Of Conscience and Constituents: Religiosity and the Political Psychology of Representation in America (2011) with David Barker and Elections and Voters in Britain (2011), with David Denver and Robert Johns. He has also published a variety of articles on American, British and Scottish politics as well as conducted evaluations of the Scotland's Public Petitions System for the Scottish Parliament.
James Maxton
The son of a Headmaster, James Maxton was a pupil at Hutchesons' Grammar School from 1898-1901.
He was a Scholarship pupil, who performed well academically and also in the swimming pool, winning two swimming medals during his time at the School.
Maxton left Hutchesons' to become a pupil teacher and subsequently went to the University of Glasgow where he took his degree. He then worked as a school teacher until he was elected Labour MP for Glasgow (Bridgeton) in 1922.
Having joined the Independent Labour Party in 1904, he became its Chairman in 1926.
In Maxton's funeral in 1946, the oration was delivered by the conductor of the Orpheus Choir, Sir Hugh Roberton (himself the parent of three Hutchesons' "Old Boys" - hence our Roberton Music School - and a lifelong friend of Maxton) and thousands of Glaswegians lined the route to the service which was held in Maryhill Crematorium.
Previous Maxton Lecturers
- TAM DALYELL MP
MP for Linlithgow - JOHN MAXTON MP
MP for Glasgow (Cathcart) - MR HUMPHREY ERRINGTON
Cheesemaker - BOB HOLMAN
Academic/Community Worker - MR DENNIS CANAVAN MSP
- THE RT HON THE LORD STRATHCLYDE
- LORD WATSON OF INVERGOWRIE
Mike Watson MSP - MR DAVID HARRISON
University Administrator and Activist - DAVID McLETCHIE MSP
Leader of the Scottish Conservative MSPs - BRIAN TAYLOR
Political Editor, BBC Scotland - THE RT. HON MICHAEL J. MARTIN, MP
Speaker of the House of Commons - PROFESSOR PAUL WILKINSON
Chairman of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism
and Political Violence, University of St Andrews - STEVEN PURCELL
Leader of Glasgow City Council - JOHN MASON MP (C1978)