Tour Scotland Photograph Sir Walter Menzies Gravestone Fintry

Tour Scotland photograph of the Sir Walter Menzies, Celtic Cross, gravestone in the churchyard cemetery in Fintry, Scotland. Sir Walter Menzies born 24th July 1856, died 26th October 1913, was a Liberal Party politician in Scotland who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Southern Lanarkshire from 1900 to 1913. He unsuccessfully contested the Glasgow Central constituency at the 1892 general election. He switched to the Southern Division of Lanarkshire for the 1900 election, a Conservative Liberal marginal seat. He lost by 452 votes, but in the Liberal landslide at the 1906 election he won the seat with a majority of 1,275. He was re elected at both the January 1910 and December 1910 elections, and held his seat in the House of Commons until his death in 1913, aged 57.



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