Thursday, 13 October 2016

1351 Robinson Souttar




Constituency : Dumfriesshire  1895-1900

Robinson  unseated  the  Liberal  Unionist  William  Maxwell  by  13  votes.

Robinson  was  a  distinguished  railway  engineer  from  Aberdeen  who  had  spent  much  of  his  career  in   India. He  stood  for  Oxford  in  1992.

Maxwell  re-took  the  seat  by  449  votes  in  1900.

Robinson  died  in  1912  aged  63.

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