1522 Donald Smeaton

Constituency  : Stirlingshire  1906-10

Donald  won  Stirlingshire  from  the  Tories.

Donald  was  educated  at  his  father's  boarding  school  then  the  University  of  St  Andrews. He  went  to  India  and  had  a  long  career  in  the  civil  service  there. As  Chief  Commissioner  in  Burma  he  promoted  a  crop  replacement  scheme  to  reduce  the  opium  trade  but  it  came  to  nothing. He  retired  in  1902.

In  1906  Donald  argued  for  better  representation  of  Glasgow  on  the  Board  of  Trustees  for  the  National  Gallery  of  Scotland.

Donald  was  a  frequent  contributor  in  the  House  on  both  Scottish  and  Indian  questions. He  blamed  Curzon  and  the  emergence  of  Japan  as  reasons  for  instability  in  India.

He  stood  down  in  January  1910  and  died  three  months  later  aged  61.