George Birnie Esslemont

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George Birnie Esslemont JP ( 1860 - October 2, 1917 ) was a Scottish politician. He was born the son of the politician Peter Esslemont , who won the constituency of East Aberdeenshire in the general election of the Liberal Party in 1885 . Esslemont worked as a merchant and a Justice of the Peace for Aberdeen . In 1890 he married Clementina Macdonald .

Political career

Like his father, Esslemont was a member of the Liberal Party. First he was a member of the Aberdeen City Council, where he filled various posts. Between 1899 and 1907 he was chairman of the Liberals in Aberdeen. After James Bryce , who had held the Aberdeen South constituency mandate for the Liberal Party since 1885 , was appointed Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the United States in 1907 and consequently resigned from his mandate, by-elections were required in the Aberdeen South constituency. With these Esslemont applied for the Liberals for the lower house mandate. He narrowly prevailed against the unionist Ronald McNeill and moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . In the two general election in January and December 1910 he defended his mandate. During the First World War , Esslemont was increasingly dissatisfied with British war policy and favored peace negotiations. Yet he did not vote against the liberal government. At a politically sensitive point in time, when the February 1917 Revolution was taking shape in Russia , Esslemont resigned from his mandate. He died in October of the same year. The by-elections due were won by his party colleague John Fleming , whom he had outdone as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the 1907 by-elections.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Esslemont in Hansard (English)
  2. ↑ a b Information on George Esslemont
  3. ↑ a b W. H. Fraser, ME Smith, J. Naughtie: Aberdeen, 1800-2000: A New History , Tuckwell Press, 2000, pp. 202-203. ISBN 978-1-86-232108-3
  4. ^ WH Fraser, ME Smith, J. Naughtie: Aberdeen, 1800-2000: A New History , Tuckwell Press, 2000, p. 199. ISBN 978-1-86-232108-3
  5. ^ WH Fraser, ME Smith, J. Naughtie: Aberdeen, 1800-2000: A New History , Tuckwell Press, 2000, p. 197. ISBN 978-1-86-232108-3
personal data
SURNAME Esslemont, George Birnie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH 1860
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1917