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Ramsay MacDonald received an elementary education at the Free Church of Scotland school in Lossiemouth from 1872 to 1875, and then at Drainie Parish School. He left school at the end of the summer term in 1881, at the age of 15, and began work on a nearby farm.
He worked as a teacher at the local board school he attended, and at 18 moved to Bristol as a clergyman’s assistant, where he joined the Social Democratic Federation.
James Ramsay MacDonald was born on 12 October 1866 in Lossiemouth, Morayshire, the illegitimate son of a crofter. He worked as a teacher locally and then moved to London where he became a clerk...
Jul 28, 1999 · In 1885 he went to work in Bristol, where the activities of the Social Democratic Federation acquainted him with left-wing ideas. Traveling to London the following year, he joined the Fabian Society, was employed in menial office jobs, and worked for a science degree in his spare time until his health broke down.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
MacDonald was educated at the Free Church of Scotland School in Lossiemouth, then at Drainie Parish Church. In 1881 he became a pupil teacher at Drainie. In 1885 MacDonald worked for a while as a Vicar's assistant in Bristol, and joined the radical Social Democratic Federation.
Jan 22, 2020 · The young MacDonald went on to lead minority Labour governments in 1924 and then from 1929 - 1931. As a child he went to the parish school at Drainie and was appointed as a pupil teacher,...
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He left school at 18 to work in Bristol where he gained an interest in socialism from members of the Social Democratic Federation. In London the next year he joined the Fabian Society, a socialist association, and in 1894 he became a member of the new Independent Labour party.
