Hugh Shaw-Stewart, 8th Baronet

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Sir Michael Hugh Shaw-Stewart, 8th Baronet KCB TD JP ( July 11, 1854 - June 29, 1942 ) was a Scottish politician.

Life

Shaw-Stewart was born in 1854 as the second child and first son of Michael Shaw Stewart, 7th Baronet and his wife Octavia . He attended Eton College and Christ Church College, Oxford University . On November 14, 1883, Shaw-Stewart married Alice Emma Thynne , daughter of John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath . The marriage remained childless. With the death of his father on December 10, 1903, he inherited his title of baronet , of Greenhall and Blackhall in the County of Renfrew.

Shaw-Stewart initially embarked on a military career. He was a captain in the 4th Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders . He later served as an honorary colonel of the 5th and 6th Battalions. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration for his services . In 1916 he was accepted as a Companion (CB) in the Order of the Bath . In 1933 he was awarded the knighthood of a Knight Commander (KCB) of the Order of the Bath. The University of Glasgow awarded Shaw-Stewart an honorary doctorate in law in 1936 . For many years he was active as Justice of the Peace for Renfrewshire . From 1922 to 1942 he was Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire.

Political career

For the first time Shaw-Stewart appeared in the general election in 1886 for elections at the national level. He ran for the Conservative Party for the mandate of the constituency of East Renfrewshire , whose mandate had won in the previous elections in 1885, the liberal James Finlayson , but who did not run for these elections. With a share of 61% of the vote, Shaw-Stewart prevailed against his liberal opponent James Samuelson and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . After he was able to defend his mandate in the subsequent general election in 1892 , he held it in the elections of 1895 and 1900 without a candidate. In the 1906 elections, Shaw-Stewart was defeated by the liberal Robert Laidlaw with a difference of only 95 votes and left the House of Commons. A total of 74 contributions by Shaw-Stewart were recorded in Parliament.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sir Michael Hugh Shaw-Stewart of Greenhall and Blackhall, 8th Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed July 9, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Baronetage: SHAW-STEWART of Blackhall and Greenock, Renfrew at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  3. ↑ a b The Constitutional Yearbook 1903, p. 182.
  4. ^ The Constitutional Yearbook 1910, p. 221.
  5. ↑ Michael Shaw-Stewart in the Hansard (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Shaw-Stewart, Hugh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shaw-Stewart, Sir Michael Hugh, 8th Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1854
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1942