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Sir Robert Balfour, 1st Baronet
Sir Robert Balfour, 1st Baronet (6 March 1844 – 4 November 1929) was a Scotland, Scottish Scottish Liberal Party, Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1906 to 1922. He was the member of parliament for Partick (UK Parliament constituency), Partick from 1906 to 1918, and for or Glasgow Partick (UK Parliament constituency), Glasgow Partick from 1918 to 1922. Background He was born in Pilmuir, Upper Largo, Largo, Fife in 1844, a son of James Balfour. He was educated at Madras College in St Andrews. He married Josephine Maria Beazley of Liverpool. They had two sons. Business career In 1863 he joined the merchant firm Balfour, Williamson & Co. From 1869 to 1893, he was stationed in San Francisco. From 1893 to 1899 he was based in Liverpool and then in London from 1899. Political career In 1906, Balfour was elected as a Member of Parliament in Glasgow. At the following General Election in 1918, he supported the Coalition government of L ...
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January 1910 United Kingdom General Election
The January 1910 UK general election was held from 15 January to 10 February 1910. Called amid a constitutional crisis after the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative-dominated House of Lords rejected the People's Budget, the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal government, seeking a mandate, lost their majority. The result was a hung parliament: Arthur Balfour’s Conservative Party (UK), Conservatives and their Liberal Unionist Party, Liberal Unionist allies won the most votes, but H. H. Asquith, Asquith’s Liberal Party (UK), Liberals secured the most seats, edging out the Conservatives by two. With Irish Parliamentary Party support, Asquith remained in power. Another election followed in December 1910 United Kingdom general election, December. The Labour Party (UK), Labour Party, led by Arthur Henderson, returned 40 MPs. Much of this apparent increase (from the 29 Labour MPs elected in 1906) came from the defection, a few years earlier, of Liberal-Labour (UK), Lib Lab MPs from the ...
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UK MPs 1906–1910
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities of Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast are the national capitals of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. ...
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Scottish Liberal Party MPs
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Members Of The Parliament Of The United Kingdom For Glasgow Constituencies
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Nobility From Fife
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People From Upper Largo
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1929 Deaths
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic Counter-revolutionary, counter-revolution in Mexico. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the ''Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)'' case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created. In Asia, the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Soviet Union engaged in a Sino-Soviet conflict (1929), minor conflict after the Chinese seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway, which ended with a resumption of joint administration. In the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary Joseph S ...
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1844 Births
In the Philippines, 1844 had only 365 days, when Tuesday, December 31 was skipped as Monday, December 30 was immediately followed by Wednesday, January 1, 1845, the next day after. The change also applied to Caroline Islands, Guam, Marianas Islands, Marshall Islands and Palau as part of the Captaincy General of the Philippines; these became the first places on Earth to redraw the International Date Line. Events January–March * January 4 – The first issue of the Swedish-languaged ''Saima'' newspaper founded by J. V. Snellman is published in Kuopio, Finland. * January 15 – The University of Notre Dame, based in the city of the same name, receives its charter from Indiana. * February 27 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti. * February 28 – A gun on the USS ''Princeton'' explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing U.S. Secretary of State Abel Upshur, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer and four other people. ...
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John Collie (doctor)
Sir Robert John Collie (15 August 1860''Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950'' –4 April 1935) was a Scottish medical doctor and public servant who also served as National Liberal Party MP for Glasgow Partick from 1922 to 1923. Background He was the fourth son of James Collie, of Pitfodels, Aberdeenshire. He was educated at Aberdeen University. He married, in 1886 Jessie Edgar of Locharwoods, Dumfriesshire. They had one son. He was knighted in 1912. He was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1918. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant. He was a Justice of the peace in the County of London. His wife Jessie died in 1928. Professional career He was Chief Medical Officer Metropolitan Water Board; Consulting Medical Officer to the Ministry of Pensions; Hon. Member Massachusetts Society of Physicians; Medical Examiner to the London County Council; Vice-President Medico-Legal Society; Member Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases, 1913–15; Tempo ...
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1922 United Kingdom General Election
The 1922 United Kingdom general election was held on Wednesday 15 November 1922. It was won by the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law, which gained an overall majority over the Labour Party, led by J. R. Clynes, and a divided Liberal Party. This election is considered one of political realignment, with the Liberal Party falling to third-party status. The Conservative Party went on to spend all but eight of the next forty-two years as the largest party in Parliament, and Labour emerged as the main competition to the Conservatives. The election was the first not to be held in Southern Ireland, due to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921, under which Southern Ireland was to secede from the United Kingdom as a Dominion – the Irish Free State – on 6 December 1922. This reduced the size of the House of Commons by nearly one hundred seats when compared to the previous election. Background The Liberal Party had divided into two f ...
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