UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
This website is considered to be an archive in the public interest.

Born: 25 January 1864

Died: 26 January 1920

Member of Privy Council - 24 January 1917

husband of Edith Mary Allen

Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (Government Whip)	8 July 1909	25 January 1915
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Government Chief Whip	1915	1916

17 January 1906	Dumfries District of Burghs	Liberal Party	2,035	59.21
8 July 1909 Resignation of John Gulland on appointment as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.
20 July 1909	Dumfries District of Burghs	Liberal Party	1,877	54.22
24 January 1910	Dumfries District of Burghs	Liberal Party	2,303	57.10
13 December 1910	Dumfries District of Burghs	Liberal Party	2,315	59.19
14 December 1918	Dumfriesshire	Liberal Party	7,562	36.17