David Johnstone Pryde (3 March 1890 – 2 August 1959) was a Scottish
Labour politician.
The youngest son of Matthew James John Maitland Pryde, of
Gorebridge
Gorebridge is a former mining village in Midlothian, Scotland.
Gorebridge has an annual Gala Day which always takes place on the 3rd Saturday in June. This is much like a town fair, with rides and games. The gala day has a tradition of pickin ...
, Midlothian, he was educated at
Lasswade Secondary School and at the
Scottish Labour College.
He worked as a colliery clerk and as a miners' trade union official. From 1927 until 1932, he was president of the
West Lothian Mineworkers Union, and from 1923 until 1933, he served on the national executive of the
National Union of Scottish Mineworkers
The National Union of Scottish Mineworkers (NUSW) is a trade union in Scotland, founded in 1894 as the Scottish Miners Federation. It joined the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, and in 1914 changed its name to National Union of Scottish Minew ...
.
[Joyce Bellamy, "Pryde, David Johnstone", ''Dictionary of Labour Biography'', vol.II, pp. 313–314] He was elected to
Bonnyrigg and Lasswade Town Council in 1938, and twice served as election agent to
Joseph Westwood
Joseph Westwood (11 February 1884 – 17 July 1948) was a Scottish Labour Party politician.
Educated at Buckhaven Higher Grade School, he worked as a draper's apprentice, messenger boy and miner. Westwood was an Industrial Organiser for Fife ...
.
He was the unsuccessful Labour candidate for
Peebles and South Midlothian in 1935, but was elected for that seat in 1945. Following the boundary changes, he sat for the short-lived seat of
Midlothian and Peebles from 1950 until 1955,and then for
Midlothian from 1955 until his death in August 1959. The seat remained vacant until the general election in October 1959.
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1890 births
1959 deaths
Scottish Labour MPs
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
National Union of Mineworkers-sponsored MPs
UK MPs 1945–1950
UK MPs 1950–1951
UK MPs 1951–1955
UK MPs 1955–1959
People from Midlothian
People educated at Lasswade High School Centre
Scottish miners
Scottish trade unionists
20th-century British businesspeople
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