John Macdonald (British politician, born 1854)

John Archibald Murray Macdonald (9 October 1854 – 16 January 1939) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician.

Biography

The fourth son of the Rev. H. F. Macdonald DD, Strachur, Argyllshire, he was educated at Glasgow High School, the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh. In 1885 he married Alice Mary Noel, daughter of Edward H. Noel.^[1]

He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Bow and Bromley from 1892 to 1895, for Falkirk Burghs from 1906 to 1918 and for Stirling and Falkirk Burghs from 1918 to 1922.

He was also an elected member of the London School Board for Marylebone in 1897 and 1900, resigning in 1902.^[1]

In 1911, he addressed a meeting of the Young Scots Society in Clydebank and advocated for devolution of political power to Scotland due to what he saw as the congestion of business at Westminster, claiming that Parliament was no longer "a deliberative assembly in the true sense."^[2]

He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1916.^[1]

Sources

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Arthur G. M. Hesilrige, ed. (1922). Debrett's House of Commons and The Judicial Bench 1922. London: Dean and Son. p. 100. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
^ The Scotsman 29 Nov 1911: 13

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Macdonald

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Sir John Colomb	Member of Parliament for Bow and Bromley 1892 – 1895	Succeeded by Lionel Holland
Preceded by John Wilson	Member of Parliament for Falkirk Burghs 1906 – 1918	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Stirling and Falkirk Burghs 1918 – 1922	Succeeded by Hugh Murnin