Edwin Scrymgeour
Edwin Scrymgeour | |
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Member of Parliament for Dundee | |
In office 15 November 1922 – 8 October 1931 | |
Preceded by | Winston Churchill Alexander Wilkie |
Succeeded by | Florence Horsbrugh Dingle Foot |
Personal details | |
Born | Dundee, Scotland | 28 July 1866
Died | 1 February 1947 Dundee, Scotland | (aged 80)
Political party | Scottish Prohibition |
Education | West End Academy |
Edwin Scrymgeour (28 July 1866 – 1 February 1947) was a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dundee in Scotland.[1] He is the only person ever elected to the House of Commons on a prohibitionist ticket, as the candidate of the Scottish Prohibition Party. He was affectionately known as Neddy Scrymgeour.[2]
Life
A native of Dundee, he was educated at West End Academy. He was a pioneer of the Scottish temperance movement and established his party in 1901 to further that aim.[1]
In 1896 he is listed as a clerk, living at 42 Kings Road in Dundee.[3]
He served on
In 1910 he was living at 92 Victoria Road in Dundee.[5]
In the 1922 election, Scrymgeour and the Labour candidate, E. D. Morel, jointly ousted Winston Churchill, who had represented the city as a Liberal (to then a Coalition Liberal).[6] Scrymgeour remained an MP for Dundee until the 1931 general election,[1] when he was ousted by Florence Horsbrugh.
Out of Parliament, Scrymgeour worked as an evangelical Chaplain at East House and Maryfield Hospital in Dundee.[1] Scrymgeour was a leader of the unsuccessful opposition to disbanding the Scottish Prohibition Party in 1935.
He died at his home in Dundee on 1 February 1947,[7] followed by his wife Margaret on 28 May. Both were interred alongside Scrymgeour's father James in Dundee's Eastern Cemetery.
References
- ^ a b c d "Scrimgeour, Edwin". Who Was Who (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2007. Retrieved 16 February 2013. (subscription required)
- ^ The Dundee Book, Billy Kay
- ^ Dundee Post Office Directory 1896
- ^ "Scottish National Dictionary, 2005 Supplement, KETTLE, n.1.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ Dundee Post Office Directory 1910
- ^ "Discontent, War & the Impact of Revolution in Dundee". Archives, Records and Artefacts at the University of Dundee. University of Dundee. February 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/61325. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)