William Darling (politician)

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William Young Darling CBE MC DL JP ( 1885 - February 4, 1962 ) was a British politician and author . His great-nephew is the future Minister Alistair Darling .

Life

William Darling served as Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace . He was also Lord Provost (roughly Lord Mayor) of Edinburgh and Director of the Royal Bank of Scotland . He was awarded the Order of the British Empire with the rank of Commander and the Military Cross .

Political career

For the first time Darling appeared in the general election in 1945 in the constituency of Edinburgh South to elections at the national level. As a candidate for the Unionist Party , he inherited his party colleague Samuel Chapman , who had held the House of Commons mandate since 1922 and did not run for these elections. Darling won the mandate clearly against the Labor candidate WP Earsman and subsequently moved into the British House of Commons for the first time . In the following elections in 1950 , 1951 and 1955 he defended his mandate. In 1957 Darling gave up his mandate and left the House of Commons. The due by-elections were held on May 29, 1957. The mandate won Darling's party colleague Michael Clark Hutchison .

Works

  • Private Papers of a Bankrupt Bookseller , 1931
  • Hades the Ladies , 1933
  • The Old Mill , 1934
  • Down but not Out , 1935
  • Bankrupt Bookseller Speaks Again , 1938
  • Why I Believe in God and King's Cross to Waverley , 1944
  • A Book of Days , 1951
  • So it Looks to Me , 1952
  • A Westminster Lad , 1955

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Darling in the Hansard (English)
  2. ↑ http://www.alba.org.uk/nextge/edinburghsouthwest.html ( Memento from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ R. Bennett: Black and Tans , 1959, p. 188.
  4. ↑ Glasgow Herald : Royal Bank of Scotland , December 2, 1943.
  5. ^ Results of the lower house elections in 1945 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 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 lower house elections in 1950 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 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
  7. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1951 ( 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
  8. ↑ Results of the lower house elections in 1955 ( Memento of the original from March 3, 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
  9. ↑ The Yearbook for Scotland 1967, p. 121.

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personal data
SURNAME Darling, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Darling, William Young
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1885
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1962