Alexander Livingstone (politician)

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Alexander Mackenzie Livingstone (* 1880 in Applecross , † September 14, 1950 ) was a Scottish liberal politician.

Life

Livingstone was born in Applecross in the Scottish Highlands in 1880 . He married the from the Hebridean island of Skye originating Mary MacAskill . His wife died in 1946 and Livingstone married a second time, this time to Mary Clark of Stornoway .

Political career

In the general election of 1918 Livingstone ran as a candidate for the Liberal Party for the Dover constituency . He missed entry into the British House of Commons, however, as well as in the subsequent elections in 1922 in the Inverness constituency . The national liberal William Cotts secured the mandate of the constituency of Western Isles in 1922 . After the dissolution of parliament in 1923, Cotts did not apply for any further term. Livingstone ran in the due 1923 general election in the Western Isles constituency. In addition to a candidate from the Labor Party , the unionist William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, was one of his competitors. Livingstone received a majority of 39.6% of the vote and entered the British House of Commons for the first time. Contrary to the national trend, Livingstone was able to increase its share of the vote in the 1924 elections . In the following parliamentary term he sat as one of 40 Liberals (1923, 158 seats) in the House of Commons. As a result of political differences, Livingstone moved away from the Liberal Party. In the general election of 1929 he did not run and left the lower house. In 1930 he joined the Labor Party and was a member of the London City Council until his death .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Livingstone (politician) in the Hansard (English)
  2. ↑ a b c Dignified Retreat in: Roger Hutchinson: The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme , Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2003. ISBN 978-1-8415-8184-2
  3. ^ National Unionist Association of Conservative and Liberal Unionist Organizations: The Constitutional year book , 1933, p. 243.

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personal data
SURNAME Livingstone, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Livingstone, Alexander Mackenzie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Applecross , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1950