Donald Campbell Dewar ( 21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000 ) was a Scottish politician who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) in Scotland from 1966-1970, and then again from 1978 until his death in 2000.

In 1983, Dewar was promoted to the shadow frontbench as the Shadow Scottish Secretary, and was strong supporter of Scottish devolution.

In 2000, Dewar died of a brain hemorrhage and was succeeded as First Minister of Scotland and Scottish Labour leader by Henry McLeish.

Born at 194 Renfrew Street, Glasgow on 21 August 1937 to mature parents, Dewar was an only child.

That year he was made Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Education Secretary Anthony Crosland, with whom Dewar later confessed to never really establishing a rapport, saying Crosland was a " very odd man ".

In September 2009 Dennis Canavan said Dewar reacted callously when his son was diagnosed with skin cancer in 1989.

Donald Dewar was selected for the seat Glasgow Garscadden by a majority of three, after Dewar's friend the veteran Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers MP Willie Small died unexpectedly.

In 1981, as the Labour Party tore itself apart in a civil war, Dewar was almost deselected in his constituency by hard-left activists, but he fought off the move.

On 21 December 1988, Dewar was in Lockerbie after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, as the member of the Shadow Cabinet in charge of Scottish affairs.

In 1992 John Smith made him Shadow Social Security Secretary and three years later Dewar was made a Chief Whip for the Labour Party by Tony Blair,

A deal was agreed with the Scottish Liberal Democrats to form a coalition, with Dewar agreeing to their demand for the abolition of up-front tuition fees for university students.

On 13 May, Dewar was nominated as First Minister, and was officially appointed by the Queen on 17 May at a ceremony in the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

In April 2000, Dewar was admitted to hospital for tests on his heart, following a previous test where a minor irregularity was discovered.

Dewar dealt with the exams results fiasco and the lorry drivers ' strike, and attended the Labour party conference in Brighton in September, but at the end of September told the historian Tom Devine in Dublin that if there was no surge of the energy of old, he would have to reappraise the situation within a few months time.

The First ScotRail Class 334 train 334001 was named Donald Dewar in his memory.

A coalition government, which would last until 2007, was formed between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, with Donald Dewar as First Minister.

Sir James Dewar FRS ( 20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923 ) was a Scottish chemist and physicist.

James Dewar was born in Kincardine-on-Forth in 1842, the youngest of six boys.

In 1875, Dewar was elected Jacksonian professor of natural experimental philosophy at the University of Cambridge, becoming a fellow of Peterhouse.

Ironically, one of the formulae, which does not represent benzene correctly and was not advocated by Dewar, is sometimes still called Dewar benzene.

Dewar also threatened to sack any minister or aide who briefed the media against another member of the Scottish Executive, following public rows between Jack McConnell and the Minister of Health and Community Care, Susan Deacon over the budget allocated to health.

Dewar would also study under August Kekulé at Ghent.

Abel, Sir James Dewar and Dr W Kellner, who was also on the committee, developed and jointly patented ( Nos 5, 614 and 11, 664 in the names of Abel and Dewar ) in 1889 a new ballistite-like propellant consisting of 58 % nitroglycerine, by weight, 37 % guncotton ( nitrocellulose ) and 5 % petroleum jelly.

A vacuum flask ( also known as a Dewar flask, Dewar bottle or Thermos ) is an insulating storage vessel which keeps its contents hotter or cooler than its surroundings.

" ( Eric W. Dewar, 2002 ) C. minor has also been identified from this location.

Later on, in 1891, James Dewar and Frederick Augustus Abel also managed to transform gelatinized guncotton into a safe mixture, called cordite because it could be extruded into long thin cords before being dried.

He was Chairman of the brewing firm John Dewar and Sons and also represented Inverness-shire in the House of Commons.

Formerly a professional association football player, McLeish was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Central Fife from 1987 to 2001 and the Member of the Scottish Parliament for Central Fife from 1999 to 2003, during which time he also served as the second First Minister of Scotland, from 2000 to 2001, following the sudden death of Donald Dewar.

* Vacuum flask ( also known as a Dewar flask ), a container with vacuum insulation ; used to keep the contents hot or cold for an extended period

The USFSA championship finals of 1903, 1905, 1907 and 1910 were also held in Le Parc, as well as the Coupe Sheriff Dewar in 1905.

Abel and Sir James Dewar, who was also on the committee, jointly patented a modified form of ballistite in 1889.

They also lost Dunfermline West, but this was not helped by the sitting MP Dick Douglas deciding to stand against Labour MP Donald Dewar in his Glasgow seat instead of defending the seat he had represented for years.

Popular works were also written by Frank Finn, Douglas Dewar and Hugh Whistler.

He is also the author of monumental historical chronicle, " Dewar sefataim " (" Utterance the mouth ") in Hebrew on the history of the Crimean Khanate.

The NCC has also suggested the city to consider other options then the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway while all three Ottawa Centre candidates for the 2008 federal elections, including incumbent New Democratic Party MP Paul Dewar, Liberal candidate Penny Collenette and Conservative candidate Brian McGarry also expressed opposition to rail on the Parkway.

The Elliot Library is named after former inter-war Cabinet Minister Walter Elliot ; the Bridie Library after Osborne Mavor, physician and dramatist, who wrote under the pseudonym, " James Bridie "; and the Reading Room is dedicated to Donald Dewar, former President of the Union, Secretary of State for Scotland and First Minister of Scotland.

* Donald Dewar, former First Minister of Scotland ( President )

Here, he met his close friend, John Smith ( who would later become leader of the Labour Party ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( who would later become leader of the Liberal Democrats ) and Lord Irvine of Lairg ( who would serve as Lord Chancellor in the same cabinet as Dewar ) through the Dialectic Society.

Born in Inverness, Scotland, he studied Scots law at the University of Glasgow and became involved in debating with the Glasgow University Dialectic Society and at the Glasgow University Union, where he befriended contemporary Labourites Donald Dewar and John Smith.

* James Dewar, British chemist and physicist ( inventor of the Dewar flask or vacuum flask )

Inglis and a passing traveller, Arthur Dewar Bell, both received the British Empire Medal for actions that saved 15 lives.

He was mostly responsible for bringing Guncotton into safe use and for winning a patent dispute brought by Alfred Nobel against the British Government over the patent rights to Cordite which Abel had jointly developed with Professor James Dewar.

Pairing in the British House of Commons was ended by a decision of the Labour and Liberal Democrat Chief Whips, Donald Dewar and Archy Kirkwood on 17 December 1996, following an incident when they claimed to find the Conservative government cheating in a vote by pairing the same three Conservative MPs with three absent Labour MPs as well as three absent Liberal Democrat MPs.