Sir Walter Menzies (24 July 1856 – 26 October 1913)
was a
Liberal Party politician in
Scotland who served as
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Southern Lanarkshire from 1906 to 1913.
He unsuccessfully contested the
Glasgow Central constituency at the
1892 general election. He switched to the
Southern Division of Lanarkshire for the
1900 election, a
Conservative-Liberal marginal seat. He lost by 452 votes, but in the Liberal landslide at the
1906 election he won the seat with a majority of 1,275. He was re-elected at both the
January 1910 and
December 1910
The following events occurred in December 1910:
December 1, 1910 (Thursday)
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elections, and held his seat in the
House of Commons until his death in 1913, aged 57.
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1856 births
1913 deaths
Scottish Liberal Party MPs
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
UK MPs 1906–1910
UK MPs 1910
UK MPs 1910–1918
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