Salmond: The Man Behind The Nationalist
Updated: 9:14am UK, Monday 25 August 2014
Alexander Elliot Anderson Salmond was born at home in Linlithgow in 1954, on what is one of the most important days in the Scottish calendar - New Year's Eve.
He was the second of four children born to Robert and Mary Salmond, both of whom were civil servants.
The future Scottish National Party leader attended school locally and then went on to the University of St Andrews where he took his first step towards his lifelong passion for an independent Scotland by joining the Scottish National Party.
Mr Salmond graduated in 1978 with a 2:2 MA honours degree in Economics and Medieval History.
He went to work for the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland in 1978, serving as an assistant economist.
He moved to the Royal Bank of Scotland in 1980, working there as an assistant economist and then being appointed an oil economist - he later combined that role with that of a bank economist.
The early 1980s were a good time personally for Mr Salmond who met and married his wife, Moira, in 1981.
The engineer's daughter was herself a senior civil servant and had been her husband's boss during his time in what was then the Scottish Office.
The couple have no children and Mrs Salmond, who gave up her job at the time of her marriage, is known to prefer to keep a low profile.
Mr Salmond began his political career in 1987 when he was elected MP for Banff & Buchan.
He became leader of the Scottish National Party in 1990 when he beat sole opponent Margaret Ewing by 486 votes.
The General Election of 1992 was a disappointment for the party and its leader when, despite increasing its share of the vote, it failed to win a large number of seats and make the breakthrough it had hoped for.
Following a referendum in 1997 when the Scottish electorate backed the setting up of a Scottish Parliament, Mr Salmond was elected as an MSP in 1999.
But two years later he resigned as leader after being criticised from within the party about a number of fall-outs with party members. He left the Scottish Parliament.
He remained deeply involved in politics, publicly protesting about the 2003 invasion of Iraq in which the UK took part. This was not a new stand; he had also opposed PM Tony Blair's bombing of Serbia in 1999 because it was not backed by a UN Security Council resolution.
In 2004, despite having earlier said he would not be leadership candidate for the SNP, Mr Salmond decided to stand and won the contest with more than 75% of the vote.
After becoming leader of the SNP, he was elected as an MSP for the constituency of Gordon in May 2007, making political history by becoming the first nationalist to be elected First Minister of Scotland.
Mr Salmond lives with his wife in Strichen, Aberdeenshire, and he lists his hobbies as horse racing, football - he supports Scotland and Heart of Midlothian FC - golf and reading.
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