Constituency : East Aberdeenshire 1900-06 ( Liberal Unionist )
Archibald scored another surprise triumph when he unseated Thomas Buchanan by 70 votes in a seat that had been solidly Liberal since its formation in 1868.
Archibald was proprietor of the food manufacturing business Maconochie Brothers dealing primarily in jam and pickles.
Archibald had a spat with Keir Hardie in the House when the latter named his firm in impeaching the quality of rations sent to the army in South Africa.
Archibald was defeated in 1906 . He stood for Glasgow Partick in the two elections of 1910 without success.
In 1911 Archibald spoke at a meeting of the Anti-Suffrage Society.
Archibald's firm was one of the main suppliers of soldiers' rations during the First World War.
In 1919, Archibald and another manufacturer Tom Aveling decided to consolidate agricultural engineering businesses into one large combine to compete with the U.S. He became chairman of Agricultural and General Engineers Limited and received a 5 % entrepreneurial commission on the value of firms joining the combine.
The following year Archibald stepped down for health reasons and eventually sold all his shares.
He died in 1926 aged 70.
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