George Downie Blyth Crookston Hardie (8 September 1873 – 26 July 1937)James Keir Hardie 1856 – 1915
at ''Hunting Dead'' was a

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Labour politician, and the younger brother of the party's founder

Keir Hardie James Keir Hardie (15 August 185626 September 1915) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician. He was a founder of the Labour Party, and served as its first parliamentary leader from 1906 to 1908. Hardie was born in Newhouse, Lanarkshire. ...

. After leaving school, he became an engineer and an activist in the

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. He first stood for election to the

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at the 1918 general election, when he unsuccessfully contested the Glasgow Springburn constituency for the Labour Party. He won the Springburn seat with a large majority at the 1922 general election, helped by the absence of a

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candidate. He was re-elected at the next three consecutive general elections, but when Labour's vote collapsed at the 1931 general election, Hardie was one of those who lost his seat – by a narrow majority of only 34 votes, the left-wing vote having been split by the presence of a

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candidate. Hardie was re-elected with a large majority at the 1935 general election, and died in office two years later, aged 63. He was succeeded by his wife,

Agnes Hardie Agnes Agnew Hardie (née Pettigrew; 6 September 1874 – 24 March 1951) was a British Labour politician. Early life Her association with the Labour movement began when she was a shop girl in Glasgow."Glasgow's First Woman M.P." ''Glasgow He ...

, who became Glasgow's first female MP and the fifth ever Scottish woman to become an MP.

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