- Arthur Woodburn
Arthur Woodburn (
25 October 1890 –1 June 1978 ) was a Scottish Labour politician.Born in
Edinburgh , he was educated atHeriot Watt College . Imprisoned as aconscientious objector duringWorld War I , Woodburn worked in engineering and ironfounding administration, and was a lecturer and national secretary of the ScottishLabour College . He was Secretary of the Scottish Labour Party from 1932 to 1939, and President of the National Council of Labour Colleges from 1937 to 1965.Woodburn was an unsuccessful candidate for Edinburgh South in 1929 and Edinburgh Leith in 1931; he was
Member of Parliament for Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire from 1939 until 1970.In Parliament he served asParliamentary Private Secretary to Tom Johnston in 1941, andParliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Supply from 1945 to 1947. He wasSecretary of State for Scotland from 1947 until 1950 in the government ofClement Attlee . He was made aPrivy Councillor in 1947.He had a strong interest in economics, education, European unity, international relations, modern languages and Scottish history. He was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the
National Library of Scotland in 1961 and his papers are held by the Library.Woodburn was married to
Barbara Woodburn , a teacher who also stood for Parliament.References
*Torrance, David, "The Scottish Secretaries" (Birlinn 2006)
*cite book | author= | title=The Times House of Commons 1929, 1931, 1935 | publisher=Politico's (reprint) | year=2003 | editor=Iain Dale | id=ISBN 1-84275-033-X
*cite book | author= | title=The Times House of Commons 1945 | publisher= | year=1945 | editor= | id=
*cite book | author= | title=The Times House of Commons 1950 | publisher= | year=1950 | editor= | id=
*cite book | author= | title=The Times House of Commons 1955 | publisher= | year=1955 | editor= | id=External links
* [http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/cnmi/inventories/acc7656.pdf National Library of Scotland catalogue of papers]
* [http://www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/cnmi/inventories/acc6276.pdf National Library of Scotland additional papers]
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