Kenneth Martin Lindsay (16 September 1897 – 4 March 1991) was a Labour Party politician from the United Kingdom who joined the breakaway National Labour group. He was the final

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to be elected by the

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. Standing as a Labour candidate, he unsuccessfully contested the

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constituency at the 1924 by-election, Harrow at the 1924 general election and

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. When the Labour Party split in 1931 and Prime Minister

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formed a

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with the

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, Lindsay followed MacDonald into the breakaway National Labour group. In 1933, Craigie Aitchison, the National Labour

(MP) for

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, was appointed as a judge, vacating his seat. At the resulting by-election on 2 November, Lindsay defeated the Labour candidate, and was re-elected comfortably at the 1935 general election. He held the seat until 1945, later sitting as a

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. He was

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from 1935 to 1937, and then

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from 1937 to 1940. He did not contest Kilmarnock at the

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, but was elected as an

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member for the Combined English Universities, holding the seat until the

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were abolished for the 1950 general election.

Bibliography

* ''Social progress and educational waste'' (1926) * ''English education'' (1941) * ''Towards a European parliament'' (1958) * ''European assemblies: the experimental period, 1949–1959'' (1960) * ''The first twenty-five years of the Anglo-Israel Association'' (1973)

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* * * 1897 births 1991 deaths National Labour (UK) politicians Independent members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the Combined English Universities UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950 Lords of the Admiralty Presidents of the Oxford Union Ministers in the Chamberlain wartime government, 1939–1940 Ministers in the Chamberlain peacetime government, 1937–1939 Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates {{Scotland-Labour-UK-MP-stub