David Kirkwood (politician)

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David Kirkwood when he was arrested in 1919

David Kirkwood, 1st Baron Kirkwood PC JP ( July 8, 1872 - April 16, 1955 ) was a British politician.

Life

Kirkwood was born in 1872 to John Kirkwood and his wife Jean , née Brown. He attended the Parkhead Public School in Glasgow . On June 30, 1899, he married Elizabeth Smith , with whom he fathered six children, four sons and two daughters. During the First World War , Kirkwood was a member of the socialist movement and in 1916 led the protests against rent increases. In this context he was arrested as well as in his leading involvement in the "Bloody Friday" uprising in Glasgow in 1919, in which 60,000 people took part.

In 1935, Kirkwood served as Justice of the Peace in Glasgow and was inducted into the Privy Council in 1948 . In 1951 Kirkwood was promoted to 1st Baron Kirkwood, of Bearsden . He died in 1955 at the age of 82.

Political career

The unionized Kirkwood was a senior executive on the Clyde Workers' Committee . He was initially a member of the Independent Labor Party , but was excluded from the party in 1932 in the course of the termination of cooperation with the Labor Party , which Kirkwood did not support. He joined the newly formed Scottish Socialist Party , which gathered numerous former ILP members, which continued to work with the Labor Party.

From 1918 to 1922 Kirkwood was a member of the Glasgow City Council. In the general election of 1918 , he ran as a candidate for the Labor Party in the constituency of Dumbarton Burghs . However, he missed the mandate against the liberal Taylor. In the 1922 elections , he finally won in the same constituency and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . Kirkwood defended his mandate in the subsequent elections in 1923 , 1924 , 1929 , 1931 , 1935 and 1945 . In the course of the constituency revision in the run-up to the general election in 1950 , the constituency of Dumbarton Burghs was dissolved. Kirkwood therefore entered the newly created constituency of East Dunbartonshire . With a share of the vote of 52.7% he prevailed again. He did not run for the following elections in 1951 . The mandate went to the Labor candidate Cyril Bence . A total of 5832 oral contributions by Kirkwood are registered in Parliament.

Works

  • My Life of Revolt , 1935

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e David Kirkwood, 1st Baron Kirkwood on thepeerage.com , accessed August 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ STV News: George Square moments: When 'Bloody Friday' saw the streets run red , July 19, 2012.
  3. ^ STV News: Glasgow remembers Battle of George Square , January 29, 2009.
  4. ^ Peter Barberis: Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations , Continuum, London, 2005, p. 1471. ISBN 0-826-45814-9
  5. ^ Debrett's Guide to the House of Commons 1922, p. 205.
  6. ↑ a b David Kirkwood (politician) in Hansard (English)
  7. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1950 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.politicsresources.net
personal data
SURNAME Kirkwood, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirkwood, 1st Baron Kirkwood, David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1872
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1955