Allan Chapman (18 March 1897 – 7 January 1966) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician. Chapman was the son of H. Williams Chapman and attended

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. He was elected at the 1935 general election as

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(MP) for the

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constituency in

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. He held the seat during the war years, but at the 1945 general election he was defeated by the Labour Party candidate

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. In the war-time coalition government, he was

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from March 1941 to March 1942, and then

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until the coalition government was dissolved in May 1945. In the subsequent

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he then shared the post with Thomas Dunlop Galbraith until the new Labour Government took office at the end of July. He was married to Beatrice Cox. He died at

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, age 68.

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* 1897 births 1966 deaths Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Ministers in the Churchill caretaker government, 1945 Ministers in the Churchill wartime government, 1940–1945 Place of birth missing UK MPs 1935–1945 Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs {{Conservative-UK-MP-1890s-stub