Douglas Mason
Douglas Calder Mason (30 September 1941 – 13 December 2004) was a Scottish policymaker, writer and antiquarian bookseller. He came to be known as the "father of the poll tax".
Read more about Douglas Mason: Biography, The Poll Tax, Other Interests, Cancer and Later Death
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