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• Thomas Balfour
  ...as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland from 1835 to 1837. ...d Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland on 9 February 1835. He held the seat until 1837.
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• Samuel Laing
  [[File:Samuel Laing.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"The infant Samuel" - Laing as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, ...liament for Orkney and Shetland, and writer on science and religion during the Victorian era.
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• Robert Honyman (ii)
  ...British Army officer from Orkney who briefly held office as the Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland. ...(later the Lord of Session Lord Armadale) and his wife Mary, the daughter of Lord Braxfield.
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• Robert Honyman (i)
  ...Wars. A native of Orkney, he also held office for ten years as a member of parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland. ...ernal descent from Sir Robert Stewart, an illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland.
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• Robert Hamilton
  ...niversity College Hospital, London) was elected as MP for the constituency of Orkney & Shetland on 15 November 1922, replacing [[Malcolm Smith]]. He ...Cambridge. He was knighted in 1918. In 1925 he married Gertrude Williamson of Kirkwall, Orkney.
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• Richard Honyman
  ...Company who served for six years in the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Orkney and Shetland. ...ernal descent from Sir Robert Stewart, an illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland.
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• Orkney and Shetland by-election, 1921
  ...General Election''' took place between on 17 May 1921. Following the death of [[Cathcart Wason]], [[Malcolm Smith]] was elected unopposed. [[Category:Elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom]]
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• Orkney and Shetland by-election, 1902
  The '''1902 Orkney and Shetland by-election''' was contested on 18-19 November [[Category:Elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom]]
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• Orkney and Shetland by-election, 1873
  ...contested on 6-7 January 1873. The by-election had arisen due to the death of sitting MP [[Frederick Dundas]] in October 1872. [[Category:By-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom]]
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• Malcolm Smith
  ...ecember 1856, Hoswick, Shetland, d. 12 March 1935) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland. ...from 1908 to 1917, shortly before the town was incorporated into the city of Edinburgh.
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• Malcolm Laing
  ...orian, advocate and Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland from 1807 to 1812. ...r school in Kirkwall, and was a student at Edinburgh University. He joined the Speculative Society in 1782.
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• Leonard Lyell
  ...n Lyell (b. 21 October 1850, d. 18 September 1926) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland. ...e served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland from 1885 to 1900, and was commissioned a Deputy Lieutenant for Forfarshire in December
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• John Balfour
  ...servant in the East India Company with connections to the Orcadian island of Shapinsay. ...triates, had lent money to the Rajah of Tanjore, who then refused to repay the loans.
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• Jo Grimond
  ...o Grimond, was a British politician, leader of the Liberal Party from 1956 to 1967 and again briefly on an interim basis in 1976. ...rship, he successfully argued that the Liberal Party support the abolition of Britain's nuclear arsenal.
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• James Wallace
  ...arliament (MSP) for Orkney, the first Deputy First Minister of Scotland in the Scottish Executive and Advocate General for Scotland. ...gh, graduating in 1977. Based in Edinburgh, he practised as an advocate at the Scottish Bar, mostly in civil law cases.
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• Politics
  ...comprehensive and easily accessible database of the history of politics in the Shetland Islands. ...s other contributors who have supplied information. All contributions from the public are welcomed.
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• George Dundas
  ...8, d. 7 October 1834) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland. ...ember of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland and became First Naval Lord in the First Melbourne ministry in August 1834 but died in office just two months
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• George Douglas
  ...2]] - d. 4 January [[1738]]), was a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Orkney and Shetland and a Scottish nobleman. He was elected to represent the Isles in [[1713]]. He was the 2nd MP for the constituency, replacing [[Sir Alexander Douglas]], and served until [[1715]
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• Frederick Dundas
  '''Frederick Dundas''' (b. 14 June 1802, d. 26 October 1872) was a Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland. ...ndas. His mother was Lady Caroline, daughter of Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans.
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• Cathcart Wason
  ...s an innovative farmer and for having passed his time in the British House of Commons by knitting. ...ber of Parliament. He was educated at Laleham and at Rugby School. He came to Canterbury in New Zealand in 1868.[3]
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