William McLean Watson

William McLean Watson (27 October 1874 – May 1962) became Labour MP for Dunfermline Burghs, Scotland, in 1922. He lost his seat in the National Government landslide of 1931, but won it back in 1935 and retained it until 1950.

Before his career in politics, he was a miner and an official in the Scottish miners' union. He first contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1918.

References

MacDougall, Ian, ed. (1981). Militant miners : recollections of John McArthur, and Letters, 1924–26, of David Proudfoot to G. Allen Hutt. Edinburgh: Polygon Books. ISBN 0904919501.

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William McLean Watson

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