Editing Edwin Scrymgeour

{{short description|Scottish Prohibition MP}}
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| office             = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[Dundee (UK Parliament constituency)|Dundee]]
| alongside          = {{comma separated entries|[[E. D. Morel]]|[[Tom Johnston (British politician)|Tom Johnston]]|[[Michael Marcus (politician)|Michael Marcus]]}}
| term_start         = 15 November 1922
| term_end           = 8 October 1931
| predecessor        = [[Winston Churchill]]<br />[[Alexander Wilkie]]
| successor          = [[Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh|Florence Horsbrugh]]<br />[[Dingle Foot]]

| birth_date         = {{birth date|df=y|1866|07|28}}
| birth_place        = [[Dundee]], Scotland
| death_date         = {{death date and age|df=y|1947|02|01|1866|07|28}}
| death_place        = Dundee, Scotland
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| party              = [[Scottish Prohibition Party|Scottish Prohibition]]
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'''Edwin Scrymgeour''' (28 July 1866&nbsp;– 1 February 1947) was a British politician who served as a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Dundee (UK Parliament constituency)|Dundee]] in Scotland.{{r|WhoWasWho}} He is the only person ever elected to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] on a [[prohibition]]ist ticket, as the candidate of the [[Scottish Prohibition Party]]. He was affectionately known as '''Neddy Scrymgeour'''.<ref>The Dundee Book, Billy Kay</ref>

==Life==

A native of [[Dundee]], he was educated at West End Academy. He was a pioneer of the Scottish [[temperance movement]] and established his party in 1901 to further that aim.{{r|WhoWasWho}}

In 1896 he is listed as a clerk, living at 42 Kings Road in Dundee.<ref>Dundee Post Office Directory 1896</ref>

He served on [[Dundee City Council]] and began contesting elections in the [[1908 Dundee by-election]], which saw [[Winston Churchill]] first elected for Dundee, and Scrymgeour continued to fight at every election thereafter and increased his vote. That was in part because of his popularity, generally left-wing sympathies and history with the labour movement. Churchill's stance against [[suffragettes]] may have had an impact in a city that had many women as breadwinners and many men as "kettle-boilers" ([[househusbands]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=Scottish National Dictionary, 2005 Supplement, KETTLE, ''n.'''''1.'''|url=http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sndns2255|website=Dictionary of the Scots Language|accessdate=30 January 2015}}</ref>

In 1910 he was living at 92 Victoria Road in Dundee.<ref>Dundee Post Office Directory 1910</ref>

In the [[1922 United Kingdom general election|1922 election]], Scrymgeour and the Labour candidate, [[E. D. Morel]], jointly ousted [[Winston Churchill]], who had represented the city as a [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] (to then a Coalition Liberal).{{r|Archives}} Scrymgeour remained an MP for Dundee until the [[1931 United Kingdom general election|1931 general election]],{{r|WhoWasWho}} when he was ousted by [[Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh|Florence Horsbrugh]].

Out of Parliament, Scrymgeour worked as an evangelical Chaplain at East House and [[Maryfield Hospital]] in Dundee.{{r|WhoWasWho}} Scrymgeour was a leader of the unsuccessful opposition to disbanding the Scottish Prohibition Party in 1935. 

He died at his home in Dundee on 1 February 1947,<ref>{{Cite ODNB|last=Kemp|first=John|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-61325|title=Scrymgeour, Edwin (1866–1947), prohibitionist and politician|date=2004-09-23|publisher=Oxford University Press|volume=1|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/61325}}</ref> followed by his wife Margaret on 28 May. Both were interred alongside Scrymgeour's father James in Dundee's Eastern Cemetery.

==References==
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<ref name="Archives">
{{cite web |title=Discontent, War & the Impact of Revolution in Dundee| url=http://www.archives-records-artefacts.blogspot.com/2012/02/discontent-war-impact-of-revolution-in.html |work=Archives, Records and Artefacts at the University of Dundee | date=February 2012 |publisher=[[University of Dundee]] |accessdate=17 March 2016}}
</ref>

<ref name="WhoWasWho">
{{cite web |title=Scrimgeour, Edwin |work=Who Was Who |year=2007 |edition=online |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U231566 |accessdate=16 February 2013}} {{subscription required}}
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==External links==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-edwin-scrymgeour | Edwin Scrymgeour }}
* [https://abertay.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/three_dundonians.pdf ''Three Dundonians: James Carmichael, Charles W Boase and Edwin Scrymgeour'' by SGE Lythe, JT Ward and DG Southgate (Abertay Historical Society 1968)]

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  | title  = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Dundee (UK Parliament constituency)|Dundee]]
  | with   = [[E. D. Morel]] 1922–1924<br />[[Tom Johnston (British politician)|Tom Johnston]] 1924–1929
  | with2  = [[Michael Marcus (politician)|Michael Marcus]] 1929–1931
  | years  = [[Dundee in the 1922 general election|1922]]–[[1931 United Kingdom general election|1931]]
  | before = [[Winston Churchill]]<br />[[Alexander Wilkie]]
  | after  = [[Dingle Foot]]<br />[[Florence Horsbrugh, Baroness Horsbrugh|Florence Horsbrugh]]
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