Lauchlan MacNeill Weir (1877–18 August 1939) was a Scottish Labour politician. He was the son of Robert Weir and was educated at the

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. He worked as a journalist and first stood for parliament in

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in 1918, but was easily beaten by the Coalition Liberal. He was elected MP for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire in the general election of 1922, lost his seat in the National Government landslide of 1931, but won it back in 1935, holding on to it until his death in 1939. MacNeill Weir was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the first Labour Prime Minister

Ramsay MacDonald James Ramsay MacDonald (; 12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 ...

in 1924 and wrote a controversial book entitled ''The Tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald: A Political Biography'' published in 1938. He married Margaret Gillison in 1913. There were no children.

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