Edwin Scrymgeour

Edwin Scrymgeour, usually known as Neddy Scrymgeour (July 28, 1866 – February 1, 1947), was a Scottish MP for Dundee. He is the only person ever elected to the House of Commons on a prohibitionist ticket as the candidate of the Scottish Prohibition Party.

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July 28 - 1866 - February 1 - 1947 - Scottish - MP - Dundee - Prohibitionist - Scottish Prohibition Party

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Scrymgeour was a native Dundonian who established his party in 1901 and served on Dundee Town Council. He began contesting elections in the 1908 byelection which saw Winston Churchill first elected for Dundee and continued to fight at every election thereafter, increasing his vote. Because of his popularity, general left-wing sympathies and history with the labour movement, from 1922 the Labour Party came to an arrangement whereby they nominated only one candidate for the two-member Dundee constituency and ran what was in effect a joint campaign.

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Dundonian - 1901 - 1908 - Winston Churchill - 1922 - Labour Party

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In the 1922 election, Scrymgeour and Labour candidate E. D. Morel jointly ousted Winston Churchill, who had represented the city as a Liberal (at that point Coalition Liberal). Scrymgeour remained an MP for Dundee until the 1931 general election when he lost his seat. Out of Parliament Scrymgeour worked as a Chaplain at East House and Maryfield Hospitals in Dundee.

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1922 election - E. D. Morel - Winston Churchill - Liberal - 1931 general election

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