Leith Burghs (UK Parliament Constituency) - Members of Parliament

Members of Parliament

Election Member Party
1832 John Archibald Murray Liberal
1839 by-election Andrew Rutherfurd Liberal
1851 by-election James Moncreiff, later Baron Moncreiff Liberal
1859 Sir William Miller, 1st Baronet Liberal
1868 Robert Andrew Macfie Liberal
1874 Donald Robert Macgregor Liberal
1878 by-election Andrew Grant Liberal
1885 William Jacks Liberal
1886 Liberal Unionist
1886 William Ewart Gladstone Liberal
1886 by-election Ronald Munro Ferguson, later Viscount Novar Liberal
1914 by-election George Welsh Currie Conservative
1918 constituency abolished

Read more about this topic:  Leith Burghs (UK Parliament Constituency)

Famous quotes containing the words members of, members and/or parliament:

    “The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.”
    —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

    “What’s the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there’s cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    “The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austrian one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)