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 {{Scotland-Labour-UK-MP-stub