Joseph Forbes Duncan
Joseph Forbes Duncan (3 June 1879 – 1 December 1964) was a
Born in
In 1904, Duncan took up the general secretaryship of the
Duncan became chairman of the
Duncan opposed World War I, but served on the Scottish Departmental Committee on Food Production; through this, he managed to obtain exemption from being conscripted.[1] He stood for the Labour Party (to which the ILP was affiliated) at the 1919 Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire Central by-election, taking 26.4% of the vote but only managing third place. Later, he also stood unsuccessfully in Moray and Nairn at the 1929 general election, and in the 1935 Aberdeen South by-election.[1]
Duncan was the secretary of the Farm Servants throughout the inter-war period, finally retiring in 1945. He served on a number of government committees, and in 1926 was the chairman of the
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