1530 James Cleland

Constituency : Glasgow  Bridgeton  1906-10

James  took Glasgow  Bridgeton  from  the  Tories.

James  was  a  manufacturer's  son  from  the  city. He  was  educated  at  Glasgow  Academy  and  Oxford  where  he  became  President  of  the Union. He  became  a  barrister. He  contested  the  constituency  in  1900. A  year  later  he  became  a  Progressive  councillor  in  London. He  stood  for  Lewisham  in  a  by-election  in  1903.

James  held  the  seat  easily  in  January  1910  but  chose  not  to  defend  it  in  December.

He  died  in  1914  aged  40.