James Wellwood Johnston (5 April 1900 – 18 September 1958) was a British lawyer and politician. The elder son of

Christopher Johnston, Lord Sands Sir Christopher Nicholson Johnston, Lord Sands Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (18 October 1857 – 26 February 1934) was a Unionist Party (Scotland) MP for Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities (UK Parliament constituency), Edinburgh and St And ...

, he was educated at

Rugby School Rugby School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. Up ...

and

New College, Oxford New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as its feeder school, New College is one of the oldest colleges at th ...

. He was called to the Scottish bar in 1924. He was a Unionist

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

(MP) for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire. This was normally a

Labour Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...

seat which he did fairly well to win from the sitting MP,

Lauchlin MacNeill Weir Lauchlan MacNeill Weir (1877–18 August 1939) was a Scottish Labour politician. He was the son of Robert Weir and was educated at the University of Glasgow. He worked as a journalist and first stood for parliament in Argyllshire in 1918, but w ...

, in the National Government landslide of 1931. However Weir narrowly won it back in

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * ...

. He was appointed sheriff substitute of

Lanarkshire Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark ( gd, Siorrachd Lannraig; sco, Lanrikshire), is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration county in the central Lowlands of Scotland. Lanarkshire is the most populous county in Scotlan ...

at Lanark in 1940.

References

* https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-239218

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* Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies 1900 births 1958 deaths UK MPs 1931–1935 Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs Scottish barristers Members of the Faculty of Advocates People educated at Rugby School Alumni of New College, Oxford {{Conservative-UK-MP-1900s-stub