Francis Beattie (1885–28 December 1945) was

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MP for Glasgow Cathcart. Beattie won it at a by-election in 1942, was re-elected in 1945, and he died in a road accident later that year. Beattie was a businessman who was chairman of William Beattie Limited and of various other bread bakeries in Scotland. During the

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, he served in the 9th (Glasgow Highland) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, reaching the rank of

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and was

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. During the Second World War, he was Deputy Director of Emergency Bread Supplies, and Trade Adviser on Bread Supplies for Scotland,

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until 1942.

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* Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies 1885 births 1945 deaths Road incident deaths in Scotland Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950 20th-century Scottish businesspeople Glasgow Highlanders officers British Army personnel of World War I Deputy Lieutenants of Glasgow Scottish justices of the peace {{Conservative-UK-MP-1880s-stub