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Ronald McNeill

Born: 30 April 1861

Died: 12 October 1934

1st Baron Cushendun - 7 November 1927

Member of Privy Council - 16 January 1924

son of Edmund McNeill

son of Mary Miller

husband of Elizabeth Maud Bolitho

husband of Catherine Sydney Louisa Margesson

Harrow School

Christ Church, Oxford (- 1886)

Barrister

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign Affairs	1922	1924
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Foreign Affairs	1924	1925
Financial Secretary to the Treasury	1925	1927
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	19 October 1927	4 June 1929

18 January 1906	Western Aberdeenshire	Conservative Party	2,791	31.93
20 February 1907	Aberdeen South	Conservative Party	3,412	38.20
17 January 1910	Aberdeen South	Conservative Party	4,433	39.64
14 December 1910	Kirkcudbrightshire	Conservative Party	2,625	48.24
7 July 1911	St Augustine's	Conservative Party	Unopposed
14 December 1918	Canterbury	Conservative & Unionist Party - Coalition	11,408	80.75
15 November 1922	Canterbury	Conservative & Unionist Party	13,954	71.22
6 December 1923	Canterbury	Conservative & Unionist Party	12,017	58.40
29 October 1924	Canterbury	Conservative & Unionist Party	16,693	70.27
3 November 1927 Resignation of Rt Hon Ronald McNeill prior to his elevation to the Peerage as Baron Cushendun.