Combined Scottish Universities (constituency) - Definition and Overview

The Combined Scottish Universities was a university constituency in both the United Kingdom Parliament (from 1918 until 1950).

Boundaries

The constituency was not a physical area but was rather elected by the graduates of the Scottish Universities St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

The constituency returned three Members of Parliament to Westminster, elected by Single Transferable Vote.

This is a list of people who have been elected to represent the Scottish Universities in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. This University constituency was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 and abolished in 1950 by the Representation of the People Act 1948.

Westminster elections

Members of Parliament elected between 1918 and 1950.

Election of 14 December 1918

• Sir William Watson Cheyne
• Dugald McCoig Cowan
• Sir Henry Craik

Election of 15 November 1922

• Dugald McCoig Cowan
• Sir Henry Craik
• Sir George Andreas Berry

Election of 6 December 1923

• Dugald McCoig Cowan
• Sir Henry Craik
• Sir George Andreas Berry

Election of 29 October 1924

• Dugald McCoig Cowan
• Sir Henry Craik (died 16 March 1927)
• Sir George Andreas Berry

By-election of 29 April 1927

• John Buchan

Election of 27 October 1931

• Dugald McCoig Cowan (died 30 December 1933)
• John Buchan (appointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds 22 May 1935)
• Archibald Noel Skelton

By-election of 12 March 1934

• George Alexander Morrison

By-election of 22 June 1935

• Sir John Graham Kerr

Election of 14 November 1935

• Archibald Noel Skelton (died 22 November 1935)
• George Alexander Morrison (appointed Steward of the Manor of Northstead 6 March 1945)
• Sir John Graham Kerr

By-election of 31 January 1936

• James Ramsay MacDonald (died 9 November 1937)

By-election of 25 February 1938

• Sir John Anderson

By-election of 13 April 1945

• Sir John Boyd Orr

Election of 5 July 1945

• Sir John Graham Kerr
• Sir John Anderson
• Sir John Boyd Orr (appointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds 16 October 1946)

By-election of 27 November 1946

• Walter Elliot Elliot

Source: http://www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/scommons2.htm