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John Gulland
John William Gulland (1864 – 26 January 1920) was a British Liberal Party politician. Life Gulland entered Parliament as Member for Dumfries Burghs at the 1906 general election. He was a junior Lord of the Treasury from 1909 until 1915, when he was promoted to Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) upon the unexpected death of Percy Illingworth. However, the Coalition Government that formed in May resulted in his sharing the post with the Conservative Lord Edmund Talbot until Asquith's Liberals left the government in 1916. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1917. When his constituency was abolished in 1918, he contested Dumfriesshire, but was defeated by William Murray. He lived at 8 Claremont Crescent in north-east Edinburgh.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1898-99 He died in 1920. He is buried with his family in the south-east corner of Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh, facing the south path. His nephew John Masson Gulland, killed in the Goswick r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gulland
John William Gulland (1864 – 26 January 1920) was a British Liberal Party politician. Life Gulland entered Parliament as Member for Dumfries Burghs at the 1906 general election. He was a junior Lord of the Treasury from 1909 until 1915, when he was promoted to Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) upon the unexpected death of Percy Illingworth. However, the Coalition Government that formed in May resulted in his sharing the post with the Conservative Lord Edmund Talbot until Asquith's Liberals left the government in 1916. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1917. When his constituency was abolished in 1918, he contested Dumfriesshire, but was defeated by William Murray. He lived at 8 Claremont Crescent in north-east Edinburgh.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1898-99 He died in 1920. He is buried with his family in the south-east corner of Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh, facing the south path. His nephew John Masson Gulland, killed in the Goswick r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumfries Burghs (UK Parliament Constituency)
Dumfries Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP). Creation The British parliamentary constituency was created in 1708 following the Acts of Union, 1707 and replaced the former Parliament of Scotland burgh constituencies of Dumfries, Annan, Kirkcudbright Burgh, Lochmaben and Sanquhar. Boundaries The constituency comprised the Dumfriesshire burghs of Dumfries, Annan, Lochmaben and Sanquhar and the Kirkcudbrightshire burgh of Kirkcudbright. History The constituency elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system until the seat was abolished for the 1918 general election. Dumfries, Annan, Lochmaben and Sanquar were then merged into the county constituency of Dumfriesshire. Kirkcudbright was merged into Galloway. Members of Parliament Elections Elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Masson Gulland
John Masson Gulland (14 October 1898 – 26 October 1947) was a Scottish chemist and biochemist. His main work was on nucleic acids, morphine and aporphine alkaloids. His work at University College Nottingham on electrometric titration was important in leading to the discovery of the DNA double helix by James Watson and Francis Crick, and he was described as "a great nucleic acid chemist." He established the Scottish Seaweed Research Association and the Lace Research Council. Life Gulland was born at 6 Alva Street in Edinburgh's West End, the only son of Helen Orme Masson and Dr. George Lovell Gulland. His maternal grandparents were David Masson and suffrage campaigner Emily Rosaline Orme, his maternal uncle was David Orme Masson and maternal aunts Flora Masson and Rosaline Masson. His paternal uncle was John William Gulland MP. His father later became Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He attended Edinburgh Academy 1906 to 1917 and was then conscripted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK MPs 1906–1910
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Scottish Liberal Party MPs
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Members Of The Privy Council Of The United Kingdom
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1920 Deaths
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1864 Births
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George Thorne (politician)
George Rennie Thorne (12 October 1853 – 20 February 1934) was a British solicitor and Liberal politician. Family and education Thorne was educated at Tettenhall College, Wolverhampton and became a solicitor in 1876 . In 1886, he married Susan Mary Jones and they had two daughters. He went on to become senior member of the law form G R Thorne & Sons of Wolverhampton and London. Local politics Thorne entered local politics in Wolverhampton being a Borough Councillor for many years and later an Alderman. He was Mayor of Wolverhampton in 1902-03 representing the Liberal party, and Chairman of South Staffordshire Joint Smallpox Hospital from its formation. He also served as a Justice of the Peace. Wolverhampton East by-election, 1908 Thorne had stood unsuccessfully for election twice in the South and West divisions of Wolverhampton before getting elected in 1908 at by-election on 5 May to succeed Sir Henry Fowler who had been made a peer. In nearly every way Thorne seemed the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hogge
James Myles Hogge (19 April 1873 – 27 October 1928) was a British social researcher and Liberal politician. Hogge was educated at the Edinburgh Normal School, Moray House School of Education, and the University of Edinburgh, where he was president of the Liberal Association. Hogge at first wanted to be teacher. He began as pupil teacher in Edinburgh and was a 1st class King's Scholar at Moray House Training College, Edinburgh but he then qualified as a preacher in the United Free Church of Scotland. However, after engaging in work in the Edinburgh slums, he changed career again to concentrate on social work and research; first in Edinburgh, then in York with Joseph Rowntree and his son Seebohm. On 4 February 1905, Hogge married Florence Rebecca Metcalfe, a widow from Malton in Yorkshire. They had one son and two daughters. Political career Hogge was elected to the York City Council as a Progressive in the Castlegate ward from 1907–1913. He was president of the York City a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Chief Whip
The Chief Whip of the Liberal Democrats is responsible for administering the whipping system in the party which ensures that members attend and vote in parliament when the party leadership requires a majority vote. Whips, of which two are appointed in the party, a member of the House of Commons and a member of the House of Lords, also help to organise their party’s contribution to parliamentary business. On some occasions, the party leadership may allow MP's to have a free vote based on their own conscience rather than party policy, of which the chief whip is not required to direct votes. This is a list of people who have served as Chief Whip of the Liberal Democrats in the Parliament of the United Kingdom and of its predecessor parties. The Liberal Party was formed in 1859, but through its roots in the Whig Party dates back to the late 1670s. In 1988, the Liberals merged with the Social Democratic Party, formed by dissident Labour Party members in 1981, to create the Libera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Primrose (politician)
Neil James Archibald Primrose (14 December 1882 – 15 November 1917) was a British Liberal politician and soldier. The second son of Prime Minister Lord Rosebery, he represented Wisbech in parliament from 1910 to 1917 and served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1915 and as joint-Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury from 1916 to 1917. He died from wounds received in action in Palestine in 1917. Background Primrose was born at Dalmeny House in Midlothian, Scotland, the second son of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister to Queen Victoria from 1894 to 1895, and Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, Hannah de Rothschild, daughter of Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, Baron Mayer de Rothschild. He was the brother of Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery and writer Sybil Grant, Lady Sybil Grant. He was educated at Eton College, Eton and Oxford University, Oxford and played No.1 for the Oxford University Polo C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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