UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 9 February 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 23 February 1889, Aberdeen

Died: 11 December 1970

1st Viscount Davidson - 11 June 1937

Knighted - 3 June 1935

Member of Privy Council - 6 February 1928

son of Sir James Mackenzie Davidson

Westminster School

Pembroke College, Cambridge

Middle Temple (1913 -)

Civil Servant

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	25 May 1923	22 January 1924
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	10 November 1931	28 May 1937

9 November 1920	Hemel Hempstead	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	Unopposed
15 November 1922	Hemel Hempstead	Conservative & Unionist Party	11,847	67.42
6 December 1923	Hemel Hempstead	Conservative & Unionist Party	8,875	49.95
29 October 1924	Hemel Hempstead	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,985	57.63
30 May 1929	Hemel Hempstead	Conservative & Unionist Party	15,145	49.82
27 October 1931	Hemel Hempstead	Conservative & Unionist Party	21,946	67.23
14 November 1935	Hemel Hempstead	Conservative & Unionist Party	20,074	62.53
1 June 1937 Resignation of Rt Hon Sir John Davidson prior to his elevation to the Peerage as Viscount Davidson.