1031 John McCulloch

Constituency : Glasgow  St  Rollox  1885-6

John  narrowly  won  the  new  seat  of  Glasgow  St  Rollox.

John  was  educated  at  a  parochial  school  and  became  a  land  valuer. He  was  an  inspector  for  Dundee  land  and  mortgage  companies  in  America  and  a  vice -president  of  the  Scottish  Chamber  of  Agriculture.

Most  of  John's  parliamentary  interventions  were  on  land  questions.

John's  behaviour  in  1886  is  hard  to  understand  . He  voted  for  the  Home  Rule  Bill  and  then  stood  down  for  the  Liberal  Unionist  candidate   James  Caldwell   in  1886  and  joined  the  party. In  the  late 1880s  the  Liberal  Unionists  were  defeated  in  two  Glasgow  constituencies  where  they  put  up  non-local  candidates. John  commented  that  he  "did  not  see  why  it  should  be  that  a  certain  coterie  or  number  of  gentlemen  should  choose  a  candidate  for  a  district  without  taking  the  constituency  into  its  confidence. He  felt  Sir  John  Pender's  campaign  in  Govan  in  1889  simply  hadn't  been  Liberal  enough.

He  died  in  1912  aged  70.