Malcolm Smith (politician, 1856)

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Smith's gravestone in Warriston Cemetery , Edinburgh

Sir Malcolm Smith KBE (* 1. December 1856 in Hoswick , Mainland , Shetland , Scotland ; † 12. March 1935 in Leith , Scotland) was a Scottish politician of the Liberal Party .

Life

Smith was in 1856, the son of Peter Halcrow Smith from Lerwick born. In 1883 he married Jane Tod Dickson . Between 1908 and 1917 he worked as Provost von Leith. Smith had also been a member of the Scottish Fisheries Committee since 1911. In 1920 he was awarded the British Order of Merit in the form of a Knight Commander .

Political career

For the first time, Smith appeared in by-elections in 1914 in the Leith Burghs constituency as a candidate for the Liberal Party on a political level. With a difference of only 16 votes, Smith was defeated by the conservative candidate George Welsh Currie . After the liberal politician Cathcart Wason , who had represented the constituency of Orkney and Shetland in the House of Commons since the general election in 1900 , died in April 1921, by-elections were required in the constituency. Smith came to these and won the House of Commons mandate unopposed. On May 30 of the same year, Smith was sworn in in Parliament. As a supporter of the conservative-liberal coalition government, Smith ran in the 1922 elections for Orkney and Shetland. However, he was defeated by the liberal rival Robert William Hamilton and resigned from parliament.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Information on Malcolm Smith
  2. ↑ Malcolm Smith's tombstone
  3. ↑ Results of the 1912 by-elections
  4. ↑ Information on Malcolm Smith
  5. ↑ Information in Hansard
  6. ^ The Barrier Miner: British Politics , November 22, 1922.
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Malcolm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoswick , Shetland , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1935
Place of death Leith , Scotland