Robert Smith, 3rd Baronet

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Sir Robert Hill Smith, 3rd Baronet (born April 15, 1958 ) is a Scottish politician.

Life

Smith was born in 1958 to the lawyer Sir Gordon Smith, 2nd Baronet and his wife Diana . He attended the Merchant Taylors' School and the University of Aberdeen . With the death of his father in 1983 Smith inherited his title of nobility as 3rd  Baronet , of Crowmallie in the County of Aberdeen . On August 13, 1993, he married Fiona Anne Cormack . The marriage resulted in three children, Elizabeth , Helen (* 1994) and Kirsty (* 1997).

Political career

Smith first appeared in the 1987 general election to national elections. For the SDP he ran in the constituency of Aberdeen North . Smith was defeated, however, by Labor candidate Robert Hughes . With the merger of the SDP with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats , Smith became a member of this party.

In the 1997 general election , Smith ran for the mandate of the newly created constituency of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine as part of the constituency reform . With 41.1%, he received the highest share of the vote and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . In the following elections in 2001 , 2005 and 2010 , Smith held his mandate. After massive voting losses in the general election in 2015 , Smith retired from the House of Commons in third place behind the SNP candidate Stuart Donaldson and the conservative Alexander Burnett .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sir Robert Hill Smith of Crowmallie, 3rd Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed July 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ Sir (William) Gordon Smith of Crowmallie, 2nd Bt. On thepeerage.com , accessed July 11, 2015.
  3. ^ Results of the general election in 1987
  4. ↑ a b Results of the 1997 and 2001 general election
  5. ↑ Results of the lower house elections 2005 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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
  6. ↑ Results of the 2010 general election ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2016 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
  7. ↑ Results of the general election 2015

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SURNAME Smith, Robert, 3rd Baronet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Sir Robert Hill, 3rd Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1958