Constituency : Glasgow Camlachie 1885-92
The amusingly-named Hugh was the first MP for the new seat of Glasgow Camlachie.
Hugh was the son of the Sheriff of Ayrshire. He was educated at Kilmarnock Academy and the University of Geneva. He was a merchant involved in ship owning and the energy business. He was chairman of Maxim-Weston Electricity Co. and the New Chile Mining Co.
In 1888 Hugh sued his fellow Glaswegian MP Charles Cameron for libel for claiming that an address he gave was plagiarism. In 1892 he himself was sued for libel in a business dispute and had to settle. By 1892 he had fallen out with the local party and stood as an independent Liberal coming a poor fourth.
In 1896 Hugh's wife petitioned for divorce on the grounds of adultery and cruelty. She was found to have condoned her husband's adventures and had to make do with a judicial separation. After Hugh was named in another divorce case in 1901, her petition was successful. She then successfully sued her rival Violet Beauchamp for libel afte being accused of gold-digging. In 1905 Hugh was found guilty of trying to procure her murder and imprisoned for a year. He married the lady in the other divorce case on his release.
He died in 1921 aged 73.
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