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'A life of service, with dedication and compassion'
Birmingham Mail
|January 31, 2026
TRIBUTES have been paid to former Scottish deputy first minister Lord Jim Wallace after his sudden death.
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A former MP and MSP, the 71-year-old Liberal Democrat peer, pictured above, died as a result of complications from a planned major operation at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh on Thursday.
Lord Wallace previously served as advocate general for Scotland, and the current occupant praised his “dedication, decency and compassion”, and said he had played a “vital part” in Scottish devolution.
This story is from the January 31, 2026 edition of Birmingham Mail.
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