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Alex Salmond - The basics
Age: 69
Education: Linlithgow Academy, University of St Andrews
Family: Married to Moira.
No children.
Parliamentary constituency: None
Who is he?
Alex Salmond was born in Linlithgow on 31 December 1954. Both of his parents worked as civil servants.
After leaving school, he studied at the Edinburgh College of Commerce for a year before going on to study economics and medieval history at St Andrews.
It was while at university that he became involved in SNP politics, joining the Federation of Student Nationalists in 1973.
After graduating in 1978, he initially worked as an assistant economist in the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland before joining the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he spent seven years – latterly as an oil economist.
Mr Salmond was a member of the socialist 79 Group within the SNP, which was briefly banned by the party before its members were subsequentl