Thomas Ramsay

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Thomas Bridgehill Wilson Ramsay ( 1877 - October 20, 1956 ) was a Scottish liberal politician.

Political career

Since its establishment in the British general election in 1918 , the constituency of Western Isles , which includes the entire Outer Hebrides , has always sent a member of the Liberal Party or the National Liberal Party, which existed between 1922 and 1923 . From 1923 the Liberal Alexander Livingstone held the constituency mandate. As a result of political differences, he moved away from the Liberal Party and did not run for the general election in 1929 . The Liberal Party sent Thomas Ramsay into the race in the Western Isles constituency in the 1929 election. The strengthened Labor Party set up John MacDiarmid , while Iain MacAlisdair Moffatt-Pender ran for the constituency mandate for the Unionist Party . On election day Ramsay was able to unite a share of the vote of 44.1% and thus received the majority of the vote before the Labor candidate. As a result, Ramsay moved into the British House of Commons for the first time .

In the run-up to the 1931 general election , there were disagreements within the Liberal Party regarding support for the Labor minority government. Ramsay also opposed the Labor-friendly course of his party and supported rapprochement with the Conservative Party . He was a member of a group of Liberal MPs that split off from the parent party as the National Liberal Party . In the 1931 elections, Ramsay ran for the National Liberals. Compared to the previous elections, he was able to increase his share of the vote to 54.8%. Labor politician Iain MacAlisdair Moffatt-Pender was the only opposing candidate. In the general election of 1935, Labor politician Malcolm Macmillan and independent candidate Alexander MacEwen ran alongside Ramsay for the mandate of Western Isles. With massive loss of vote, Ramsay had to admit defeat to the Labor candidate and left the House of Commons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Ramsay in Hansard (English)
  2. ↑ Dignified Retreat in: Roger Hutchinson: The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme , Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2003. ISBN 978-1-84158-184-2
  3. ^ National Unionist Association of Conservative and Liberal Unionist Organizations: The Constitutional year book , 1933, p. 243.
  4. ^ D. Dutton: Liberals in Schism: A History of the National Liberal Party , IB Tauris & Co, London, 2008, p. 40. ISBN 978-0-85771-437-4
  5. ^ Results of the general election in 1931
  6. ↑ Results of the general election in 1935 ( Memento of the original from March 9, 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

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SURNAME Ramsay, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramsay, Thomas Bridgehill Wilson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1877
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1956