Thomas Maule Guthrie (1870 – 30 March 1943) was a
Scottish Liberal Party
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politician.
He was educated at
Craigmount School, Edinburgh.
[''The Liberal year book'', Volume 18, Page 62, 1922
(Liberal Publication Dept:Great Britain)] He was elected as a
Coalition Liberal
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Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Moray and Nairn at an
unopposed by-election on 21 June 1922. He was re-elected at the
1922 general election as a
National Liberal
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, narrowly beating a
Liberal Party
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opponent.
Guthrie lost his seat at the
1923 general election to the
Unionist Party candidate
James Gray Stuart. At the
1929 general election he contested
Dunbartonshire
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1870 births
1943 deaths
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
Scottish Liberal Party MPs
UK MPs 1922–1923
Politics of Moray
People educated at Craigmount School
UK MPs 1918–1922
National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) politicians
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