David Pryde (politician)
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David Johnstone Pryde (3 March 1890 – 2 August 1959) was a Scottish Labour politician.
The youngest son of Matthew James John Maitland Pryde, of Gorebridge, Midlothian, he was educated at Lasswade Secondary School and at the Scottish Labour College.
He worked as a colliery clerk and as a miners' trade union official. From 1927 until 1932, he was president of the
West Lothian Mineworkers Union, and from 1923 until 1933, he served on the national executive of the National Union of Scottish Mineworkers.[1] He was elected to Bonnyrigg and Lasswade Town Council in 1938, and twice served as election agent to Joseph Westwood
.
He was the unsuccessful Labour candidate for
Midlothian and Peebles from 1950 until 1955, and then for Midlothian
from 1955 until his death in August 1959. The seat remained vacant until the general election in October 1959.
References
- ^ Joyce Bellamy, "Pryde, David Johnstone", Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.II, pp. 313–314
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