Thomas Logie MacDonald was a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 astronomer and politician, and eponym

Eponym

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 of lunar crater McDonald

McDonald (crater)

McDonald is a small lunar impact crater located in the central Mare Imbrium. This crater is a cup-shaped feature with a circular rim, and has not been significantly eroded. It lies to the southeast of the slightly larger crater Carlini, in an isolated part of the mare.This feature was identified as...

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He was a graduate of Glasgow University, and became secretary and chairman of the West of Scotland branch of the British Astronomical Association

British Astronomical Association

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. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Royal Society of Edinburgh

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 on May 5, 1928.

MacDonald was a Labour

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

 councillor and Mayor of Carlisle

County Borough of Carlisle

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 from May 1961 to 1962.
The Carlisle/Flensburg

Flensburg

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 (Germany

Germany

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) town twinning

Town twinning

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relationship was established during his mayoral term.