UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 4 March 1880, Glasgow

Died: 19 September 1949

Knighted - 1919

Member of Privy Council - 21 November 1922

husband of Annie Christine Fountain

son of Alan Sutherland

Glasgow University

Civil Servant

Lord of the Treasury	14 February 1920	7 April 1922
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	7 April 1922	19 October 1922

14 December 1918	Argyll	Liberal Party - Coalition	11,970	81.41
14 February 1920 Resignation of Sir William Sutherland on appointment as a Lord of the Treasury.
10 March 1920	Argyll	Liberal Party - Coalition	10,187	64.95
15 November 1922	Argyll	National Liberal Party	9,020	56.67
6 December 1923	Argyll	Liberal Party	9,020	52.69
29 October 1924	Argyll	Liberal Party	6,211	31.08
30 May 1929	Barnsley	Liberal Party	12,517	30.80