Combined Scottish Universities (constituency)

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Combined Scottish Universities

University constituency
Created:	1918
Abolished:	1950
Type:	House of Commons

The Combined Scottish Universities was a university constituency in the United Kingdom Parliament (from 1918 until 1950). It was formed by merging the Edinburgh and St Andrews Universities and Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities constituencies .

Boundaries

The constituency was not a physical area but was rather elected by the graduates of the Scottish Universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

The constituency returned three Members of Parliament to Westminster, elected by Single Transferable Vote.

This is a list of people who were elected to represent the Scottish Universities in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. This University constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 and abolished in 1950 by the Representation of the People Act 1948.

Westminster elections

Members of Parliament elected between 1918 and 1950.

• Sir William Watson Cheyne
• Dugald McCoig Cowan
• Sir Henry Craik

• Dugald McCoig Cowan
• Sir Henry Craik
• Sir George Andreas Berry

• Dugald McCoig Cowan
• Sir Henry Craik
• Sir George Andreas Berry

• Dugald McCoig Cowan
• Sir Henry Craik (died 16 March 1927)
• Sir George Andreas Berry

By-election of 29 April 1927

• John Buchan

• Dugald McCoig Cowan (died 30 December 1933)
• John Buchan (appointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds 22 May 1935)
• Archibald Noel Skelton

By-election of 12 March 1934

• George Alexander Morrison

By-election of 22 June 1935

• Sir John Graham Kerr

• Archibald Noel Skelton (died 22 November 1935)
• George Alexander Morrison (appointed Steward of the Manor of Northstead 6 March 1945)
• Sir John Graham Kerr

By-election of 31 January 1936

• James Ramsay MacDonald (died 9 November 1937)

By-election of 25 February 1938

• Sir John Anderson

By-election of 13 April 1945

• Sir John Boyd Orr

• Sir John Graham Kerr
• Sir John Anderson
• Sir John Boyd Orr (appointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds 16 October 1946)

By-election of 27 November 1946

• Walter Elliot

Source: http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/scommons2.htm

 

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