Basil Neven-Spence

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Basil Hamilton Hebden Neven-Spence (born June 12, 1888 , Leith , Scotland , † September 13, 1974 , Edinburgh ) was a Scottish politician of the Conservative Unionist Party .

Life

Uyea Hall (right), home of Basil Neven-Spence

Neven-Spence was born in 1888 as the son of the Shetland landowners Thomas William Leisk Spence and Henrietta Fanny Hebden in Leith, now part of Edinburgh. Spence studied medicine at Edinburgh University and then joined the military as a military doctor. During the First World War , Neven-Spence served in Egypt and was awarded the Order of the Nile for his service . In 1917 he married Margaret Mackenzie . After the war, studied Neven-Spence in Sudan , the sleeping sickness and then returned to Edinburgh. He wrote his dissertation and was awarded a doctorate in medicine. Neven-Spence lived on the Uyea Hall estate on the Shetland island of Uyea .

Together with his wife, Neven-Spence fathered three offspring, a son and two daughters. His son Basil St Clair (* 1925) also entered the colonial military service. After the end of the Second World War , as a young, aspiring soldier, he received a position in the administration of the island of Tanna, which now belongs to Vanuatu . After a short period of service, he committed suicide there at the age of 22.

Political career

Neven-Spence first appeared at the political level in the general election in 1929 when he ran for the Unionist Party in the constituency of Orkney and Shetland . Neven-Spence was subject to the liberal rival Robert William Hamilton , who represented the constituency in the lower house since 1922 . Again he ran for the general election in 1935 in his home constituency. With an election result of 57.6%, he was able to book the majority of the vote and this time prevailed against Hamilton. In the following general election in 1945 , Neven-Spence lost 21.5% of his votes and only narrowly prevailed against the liberal Joseph Grimond . After further loss of votes in the 1950 elections , Neven-Spence resigned from the House of Commons. He did not run for the following general election.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basil Neven-Spence in the Hansard (English)
  2. ↑ a b Information on Basil Neven-Spence
  3. ^ Basil Neven-Spence on thepeerage.com , accessed April 6, 2015.
  4. ^ A b Margaret Critchlow Rodman: Houses far from Home. British colonial space in the New Hebrides. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu HI 2001, ISBN 0-8248-2307-9 , pp. 151-153.
  5. ↑ Results of the general election in 1935 ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
  6. ^ Results of the general election in 1945
  7. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1950 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net

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personal data
SURNAME Neven-Spence, Basil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neven-Spence, Basil Hamilton Hebden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Leith , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1974
Place of death Edinburgh , Scotland