Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet

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Thomson's grave in Dean Cemetery , Edinburgh

Sir Frederick Charles Thomson, 1st Baronet KC (born May 27, 1875 - April 21, 1935 ) was a Scottish politician of the Unionist Party .

Life

Frederick Thomson was born in 1875 as the third son of ship owner James Wishart Thomson from Balerno and his wife Barbara . He attended Edinburgh Academy and acquired at University College in Oxford a bachelor's degree . In 1901 there was another bachelor's degree in law. In the same year Thomson was admitted to the bar in Scotland. In 1904 he was admitted to the Inner Temple and married Constance Margaret Hotson . Together they had a son, Douglas , who was born the following year. During World War I , Thomson served in the rank of lieutenant in Egypt and the Balkans , where he was wounded. On March 28, 1929 Thomson was granted the hereditary title of Baronet , of Glendarroch in the County of Midlothian.

Political career

In the 1918 general election , Thomson ran for the Unionist Party for the constituency of Aberdeen South . He was able to unite 62.4% of the vote and thus prevailed clearly against the liberal John Fleming , who represented the constituency since 1914. Between 1919 and 1922 he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister Robert Horne . 1923 and between 1924 and 1928 Thomson held the post of Junior Lord of the Treasury . He was also installed as Crown Attorney in 1923 and was Solicitor General of Scotland from 1923 to 1924 . Between 1928 and 1929, and again in 1931, he was appointed Vice-Chamberlain of the Household . Thomson was Treasurer of the Household from 1931 until his death in 1935 .

Thomson was able to defend the mandate of his constituency in the general elections in 1922 , 1923 , 1924 , 1929 and 1931 . The by-elections required after his death in the constituency of Aberdeen South were won by his son Douglas Thomson , who also inherited his title of nobility, for the unionists. He held the mandate until his resignation in 1946.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sir Frederick Charles Thomson of Glendarroch, 1st Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed September 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Information on John Fleming
  3. ↑ Baronetage: THOMSON of Glendarroch, Midlothian at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  4. ^ WH Fraser, ME Smith, J. Naughtie: Aberdeen, 1800-2000: A New History , Tuckwell Press, 2000, pp. 202-203. ISBN 978-1-86232-108-3
  5. ^ WH Fraser, ME Smith, J. Naughtie: Aberdeen, 1800-2000: A New History , Tuckwell Press, 2000, pp. 230-231. ISBN 978-1-86232-108-3
  6. ↑ Results of the general election in 1931 ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 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
predecessor Office successor
New title created Baronet (of Glendarroch)
1929-1935 		Douglas Thomson
personal data
SURNAME Thomson, Frederick, 1st Baronet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomason, Frederick Charles, 1st Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician (Unionist Party), member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1875
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1935