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Walter Elliot
b.19 Sep 1888
d.8 Jan 1958
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Name Walter Elliot
Gender Male
Birth[1] 19 Sep 1888
Marriage to Katharine Elliot, Baroness Elliot of Harwood
Death[1] 8 Jan 1958
Reference Number Q7964761 (Wikidata)


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Walter Elliot (19 September 1888 – 8 January 1958) was a British politician of Scotland's Unionist Party prominent in the interwar period. He was elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in 1918, and besides an interval of months in 1923–24 and 1945–46, remained in parliament until his death. His Cabinet roles were as the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in the National Government (1931–1935) of Ramsay MacDonald; as the Secretary of State for Scotland in the National Government (1935–1937) of Stanley Baldwin; and as Minister of Health in Neville Chamberlain's National Government (1937–1939) and the short-lived Chamberlain war ministry.

While in medical training at university he was President of the Glasgow University Union and served in the First World War, winning the Military Cross on two occasions. In the course of his career he was Member of Parliament for the constituencies of Lanark, Glasgow Kelvingrove, and Combined Scottish Universities. He was also Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Rector of the University of Aberdeen, and Rector of the University of Glasgow.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Walter Elliot (Scottish politician), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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