Joseph Johnstone

Joseph Johnstone OBE JP ( 1860 - January 13, 1931 ) was a Scottish politician.

Life

Johnstone was born in 1860 as the eldest son of furniture maker Robert Johnstone . He attended the Crummock School in Beith and married Jane Clerk in 1882 . Following his father, Johnstone went into furniture manufacturing and in 1887 had new production buildings built in Lochwinnoch , Renfrewshire .

Johnstone was chairman of the National Insurance Committees Association and the Joint Sanatorium Boards . He also acted as Justice of the Peace . In 1918 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire with the rank of officer . After the death of his wife in 1917, he never married again.

Political career

Johnstone was elected to the Renfrewshire Council for the Liberal Party . For the first time he appeared in the general election in 1918 for elections at the national level. He ran for the mandate of the constituency of East Renfrewshire , whose mandate the Conservative John Gilmour had held since 1910. However, this no longer occurred in East Renfrewshire, but in the newly created constituency Glasgow Pollok . Johnstone clearly prevailed against Labor opponent Robert Spence and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . In the following general election in 1922 , Johnstone lost massive votes. With 17.5%, he received the lowest share of the vote of the three candidates and left the House of Commons. The Labor candidate Robert Nichol won the seat . A total of 144 contributions by Johnstone are recorded in Parliament.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Joseph Johnstone in Hansard (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Biographical information
3. ↑ Entry on Joseph Johnstone  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
4. ^ Results of the general election in 1918
5. ^ The Constitutional Yearbook 1929, p. 270.

Web links

• Joseph Johnstone at Hansard (English)