Captain Herbert James Moss (22 February 1883 – 1956) was a British sailor, Army officer, and Scottish Unionist Party politician. He was the

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(MP) for

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from 1931 to 1935. Apprenticed to a ship as a boy, Moss received his master's certificate before the age of thirty. During the First World War, he was with the Royal Engineers and commander an unit in East Africa. He then headed commercial houses in Glasgow and was a member of the

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from 1927 to 1930. After unsuccessfully contesting Glasgow Shettleston in 1929 and

in the 1931 Rutherglen by-election, he was returned for Rutherglen later that year. In 1934, he, alongside William Paterson Templeton MP and a former Glasgow town councillor, were convicted of contravening to the Lotteries Act in connection to the Modern School of Art Union Cesarewitch draw. Moss was sentenced to a £50 fine or three months' imprisonment. Moss claimed that the breach was a technical one and vowed to clear his name. In January 1935, the Rutherglen Unionist Association passed a resolution calling on him to resign as MP. He published his memoirs, ''Windjammer to Westminster'', in 1941.

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* 1883 births 1956 deaths Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1931–1935 Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs Scottish sailors British Army officers British Army personnel of World War I Royal Engineers officers {{Conservative-UK-MP-1880s-stub