Janey O'Neil Buchan (née Kent; 30 April 1926 – 14 January 2012) was a Scottish Labour politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Glasgow constituency from 1979 to 1994.
Jane Kent was born in Glasgow,[1] a city where her father Joseph was a tram driver, and her mother Chrissie Sinclair was a domestic servant.
[4] She attended commercial college and was a councillor on Strathclyde Regional Council from 1974 to 1979, when she was elected to the European Parliament in 1979 for the first time.
She was a supporter of Scottish traditional music and arts,[2] and booked Pete Seeger for his first concert abroad after his passport was reissued in 1961.
[6] In 1946, at the age of 19 Jane Kent married Norman Buchan, a schoolteacher who later became Labour MP from 1964 for West Renfrewshire, and later Paisley South.