The Baron Maxon died 20 November, 2025, aged 89.
The life peer was, as John Maxton, a Scottish Labour party politician, Labour MP for Glasgow Cathcart 1979-2001.
He was born John Alston Maxton, 5 May, 1936, son of John Maxton and nephew of James Maxton, the Independent Labour party leader and conscientious objector in World War 1.
He stood down from the House of Commons at the 2001 general election and was awarded a life peerage on 17 June 2004, and his title was gazetted in the name, style and title of Baron Maxton, of Blackwaterfoot in Ayrshire and Arran. Maxton retired from the Lords on his 89th birthday, 5 May 2025.
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