Constituency : Bow and Bromley 1892-5, Falkirk Burghs 1906-18, Stirling and Falkirk Burghs 1918-22
John took Bow and Bromley from the Tories.
John was a minister's son from Argyllshire. He was educated at Glasgow High School and Edinburgh University.
John supported Keir Hardie's amendment to the Queen's Speech in 1893 that unemployment should be made a priority.
John was decisively defeated in 1895. He stood at Falkirk Burghs in 1900 but lost to the Liberal Unionist John Wilson. He won the seat in 1906 and held it easily in the 1910 elections.
John was a member of the London School Board during his period out of parliament.
John did not receive the coupon in 1918 but had a big win over Labour anyway. He declared himself a government supporter once in Parliament and stood in 1922 as a National Liberal. He was defeated by Labour.
He died in 1939 aged 84.
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