Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside
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Robert Hughes, Baron Hughes of Woodside (born January 3, 1932), is a British Labour politician.
Educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen and in South Africa where he lived 1947 - 1954, he worked as a draughtsman. He was Member of Parliament for Aberdeen, North from 1970 to 1997, and was subsequently created a Life Peer.
He was a junior minister at the Scottish Office March 1974 - July 1975, but resigned in disagreement with the government's Incomes Policy.