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McRae was born in [[Carron, Falkirk]], where his father was an electrician. McRae edited a local newspaper in [[Grangemouth]] at the same time as reading history at the [[University of Glasgow]], from which he gained a first-class degree. In the Second World War he was commissioned into the [[Seaforth Highlanders]] but transferred to the Royal Indian Navy, in which he became a [[Lieutenant commander#Royal Navy|lieutenant commander]] and [[aide-de-camp]] to [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Admiral Lord Mountbatten]].<ref name="Murray">{{cite news|last=Murray|first=Paula|date=30 November 2014|title=SNP activist 'killed over child sex files'|newspaper=[[Daily Express#Sunday Express|Scottish Sunday Express]]|publisher=[[Northern & Shell]]|url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/541793/SNP-activist-killed-over-child-sex-files|access-date=22 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141201141326/https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/541793/SNP-activist-killed-over-child-sex-files|archive-date=2014-12-01}}</ref> He supported the [[Indian independence movement]].<ref>{{cite journal |year=1987 |journal=Carn |volume=59–67 |publisher=[[Celtic League]] |page=3}}</ref> | McRae was born in [[Carron, Falkirk]], where his father was an electrician. McRae edited a local newspaper in [[Grangemouth]] at the same time as reading history at the [[University of Glasgow]], from which he gained a first-class degree. In the Second World War he was commissioned into the [[Seaforth Highlanders]] but transferred to the Royal Indian Navy, in which he became a [[Lieutenant commander#Royal Navy|lieutenant commander]] and [[aide-de-camp]] to [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Admiral Lord Mountbatten]].<ref name="Murray">{{cite news|last=Murray|first=Paula|date=30 November 2014|title=SNP activist 'killed over child sex files'|newspaper=[[Daily Express#Sunday Express|Scottish Sunday Express]]|publisher=[[Northern & Shell]]|url=http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/541793/SNP-activist-killed-over-child-sex-files|access-date=22 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141201141326/https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/541793/SNP-activist-killed-over-child-sex-files|archive-date=2014-12-01}}</ref> He supported the [[Indian independence movement]].<ref>{{cite journal |year=1987 |journal=Carn |volume=59–67 |publisher=[[Celtic League]] |page=3}}</ref> | ||
After the war McRae returned to the University of Glasgow and graduated again, this time in law.<ref name=Murray/> He authored the maritime [[Israeli law|law of Israel]] and was an [[emeritus professor]] of the [[University of Haifa]].{{citation needed|date=January | After the war McRae returned to the University of Glasgow and graduated again, this time in law.<ref name=Murray/> He authored the maritime [[Israeli law|law of Israel]] and was an [[emeritus professor]] of the [[University of Haifa]].{{citation needed|date=January 2015}} After his death a forest of 3,000 trees was planted in Israel in his memory.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}} | ||
McRae became a solicitor and an [[Scottish National Party|SNP]] activist.<ref name=Murphy&Franklin>{{cite book |last1=Murphy |first1=David |last2=Franklin |first2=Bob |year=1991 |title=What news?: the market, politics, and the local press |place=New York |publisher=Routledge |pages=51–52 |isbn=0-415-06172-5 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=A6OU-xXimS0C&q=%22Willie+MacRae%22&pg=PA51 }}</ref> In both of the 1974 General Elections and in the [[1979 United Kingdom general election|1979 General Election]] he stood for [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] as the SNP candidate for [[Ross and Cromarty (UK Parliament constituency)|Ross and Cromarty]]. In [[October 1974 United Kingdom general election|October 1974]] he only lost to the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin|Hamish Gray]] by 633 votes, but in 1979 Gray's majority increased to 4,735. In the latter year he also [[1979 Scottish National Party leadership election|contested the SNP leadership]], coming third in a three-way contest with 52 votes to [[Stephen Maxwell]]'s 117 votes and winner [[Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician)|Gordon Wilson]]'s 530 votes.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lynch |first=Peter |year=2002 |title=SNP: the history of the Scottish National Party |publisher=Welsh Academic Press |page=170}}</ref> | McRae became a solicitor and an [[Scottish National Party|SNP]] activist.<ref name=Murphy&Franklin>{{cite book |last1=Murphy |first1=David |last2=Franklin |first2=Bob |year=1991 |title=What news?: the market, politics, and the local press |place=New York |publisher=Routledge |pages=51–52 |isbn=0-415-06172-5 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=A6OU-xXimS0C&q=%22Willie+MacRae%22&pg=PA51 }}</ref> In both of the 1974 General Elections and in the [[1979 United Kingdom general election|1979 General Election]] he stood for [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] as the SNP candidate for [[Ross and Cromarty (UK Parliament constituency)|Ross and Cromarty]]. In [[October 1974 United Kingdom general election|October 1974]] he only lost to the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin|Hamish Gray]] by 633 votes, but in 1979 Gray's majority increased to 4,735. In the latter year he also [[1979 Scottish National Party leadership election|contested the SNP leadership]], coming third in a three-way contest with 52 votes to [[Stephen Maxwell]]'s 117 votes and winner [[Gordon Wilson (Scottish politician)|Gordon Wilson]]'s 530 votes.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lynch |first=Peter |year=2002 |title=SNP: the history of the Scottish National Party |publisher=Welsh Academic Press |page=170}}</ref> | ||
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* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415074535/http://www.northern.police.uk/Default.aspx.LocID-0axnew00o.RefLocID-0ax00b00d004.Lang-EN.htm |date=15 April 2012 |title=Death of William Macrae }} official Northern Constabulary files and photographs | * {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415074535/http://www.northern.police.uk/Default.aspx.LocID-0axnew00o.RefLocID-0ax00b00d004.Lang-EN.htm |date=15 April 2012 |title=Death of William Macrae }} official Northern Constabulary files and photographs | ||
* {{cite web |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsqJEN9ouY0&list=UUgJl9r_tuiaVfzq1cd3ujgw |title=Who Killed Willie MacRae? |author=Channel 4 |publisher=YouTube |year=1991}} | * {{cite web |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsqJEN9ouY0&list=UUgJl9r_tuiaVfzq1cd3ujgw |title=Who Killed Willie MacRae? |author=Channel 4 |publisher=YouTube |year=1991}} | ||
* {{cite news |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-11665643 |title=Call for new probe of SNP activist Willie McRae's death |publisher=BBC |date=1 November | * {{cite news |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-11665643 |title=Call for new probe of SNP activist Willie McRae's death |publisher=BBC |date=1 November 2010}} | ||
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