Education
Gourlay was educated at Kirkcaldy High School and was a vehicles examiner.
Gourlay was educated at Kirkcaldy High School and was a vehicles examiner.
Gourlay contested South Angus in 1955. Gourlay was a Government Whip and a Deputy Speaker during the 1964-1970 Labour government.
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He served as a councillor on Kirkcaldy Town Council and Fife County Council from 1946 and was a governor of Dundee College of Education and a member of his local hospital board.