Murdoch Macdonald

"Murdo MacDonald" redirects here. For other uses see Murdo MacDonald (disambiguation).

Sir Murdoch Macdonald (6 May 1866 – 24 April 1957) was a British politician.

Born in Inverness, Macdonald was educated at Farraline Park Institution, Inverness.

A consulting civil engineer by profession, he became President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1932.^[1]

Macdonald was elected as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Inverness in 1922. He joined the National Liberal Party split in 1931, but resigned from the National Liberal group in the House of Commons in 1942 and according to some descriptions stood as an Independent Liberal MP at the 1945 general election. However Who was Who, The Times and Whitaker's Almanack all show Macdonald with the description Liberal National in 1945. At his last election, he became the House's oldest MP. He remained a member of his constituency association, which was aligned with the National Liberals. He sat until he retired in 1950, aged 83.

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/ge45/i11.htm 1945 General Election result, Inverness

Notes

1. ^ Watson, Garth (1988), The Civils, London: Thomas Telford Ltd, p. 252, ISBN 0-727-70392-7 

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Murdoch Macdonald

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Thomas Brash Morison	Member of Parliament for Inverness 1922–1950	Succeeded by Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton
Preceded by Will Thorne	Oldest sitting member (nb not Father of the House) 1945 - 1950	Succeeded by David Logan
Professional and academic associations
Preceded by Cyril Kirkpatrick	President of the Institution of Civil Engineers November 1932 – November 1933	Succeeded by Henry Maybury

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Name	Macdonald, Murdoch
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Date of birth	6 May 1866
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Date of death	24 April 1957
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