1250 William Maxwell

Constituency : Dumfriesshire  1892-5, 1900-06  ( Liberal  Unionist )

William  kept  hold  of  Dumfriesshire  for  the  Liberal  Unionists  after  the  retirement  of  Robert  Jardine  by  274  votes.

William  largely  confined  his  interventions  to  Scottish  matters.

William  was  defeated  by  13  votes  in  1895  but  won  it  back  by  449  votes  in  1900. He  stepped  down  before  the  1906  election.

He  died  in  1933  aged  81.