Henry Mouat
Henry Mouat (b. 29 November 1874, Tingwall, d. 20 March 1944, Lerwick) was the manager of a wholesalers and a County Councillor.
He unsuccessfully contested the Whiteness and Weisdale seat in the 1919 County Council election.
He was described by the Shetland Times as one of the "foremost business men and one of the most eminent figures ever to take part in the Island's public life". Upon his marriage to Jane Smith, he moved from Tingwall to Sandsound and operated a general merchant shop in Weisdale. By the 1910s, the family had relocated to Lerwick where Henry was associated with the Shetland Island's Steam Trading Company.
In 1907, he began his association with the form J & J Tod & Sons. In the preceding century, the firm was one of the principle suppliers to the grocery trade in Shetland, and Henry was hired to run the Shetland operation of the firm, overseeing a significant expansion of the organisation's operations. Under his stewardship, the firm opened their first depot in Lerwick and extended the operation into Orkney.
His great-great-great uncle James Mouat was a Lerwick Town Councillor. Henry was also a distant relative of Robert Stewart, the first Earl of Orkney (9th Great-grandson).
Political Career
- County Council Election December 1910
- County Council Election December 1913
- Lerwick North County Council By-Election March 1920
- County Council Election December 1922
- County Council Election December 1925
- County Council Election December 1928
- County Council Election December 1929
- County Council Election December 1932
- County Council Election December 1935
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| Conveners | ||
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| Preceded by John W. Robertson |
Convener of the Zetland County Council 1924-1927 |
Succeeded by James A. Smith |
| Conveners of the Zetland County Council | ||
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| Councillors | John Bruce (1890-1907) • John Anderson (1907-1910) • James Grierson (1911-1913) • Robert D. Ganson (1914-1917) • John W. Robertson (1918-1923) • Henry Mouat (1924-1927) • James A. Smith (1928-1929) • Magnus Shearer (1930-1935) • Thomas Johnston (1935-1936) • William McDougall (1936-1937) • Adam Halcrow (1937-1938) • Edward Adie (1938-1943) • Robert J. H. Ganson (1944-1947) • William Thomson (1947-1955) • Prophet Smith (1955-1960) • Tom Henderson (1960-1963) • William Hamilton (1963-1967) • Robert A. Johnson (1967-1970) • Edward Thomason (1970-1973) • George Blance (1973-1975) | |
| Zetland County Council | ||
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| Preceded by John Sandison 
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Member for Yell North 1910-1919 |
Succeeded by George Jamieson |
| Preceded by William Greig |
Member for Lerwick North 1920-1929 |
Succeeded by Constituency abolished |
| Preceded by William Sinclair 
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Member for Cunningsburgh 1929-1938 |
Succeeded by Angus Gunn |
| Cunningsburgh County Councillors | ||
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| Councillors | George Clark (1890-1896) • John Tulloch (1896-1901) • James Goudie (1901-1904) • Charles Stout (1904-1910) • Francis Pottinger (1910-1919) • Laurence Anderson (1919-1922) • Thomas Johnston (1922-1925) • Simson Wallace (1925-1927) • William Sinclair (1927-1929) • Henry Mouat (1929-1938) • Angus Gunn (1938-1940) • Laurence Laurenson (1940-1945) • St. Clair Pottinger (1945-1949) • Adam Halcrow (1949-1955) • Grace Halcrow (1955-1961) • Joan McLeod (1961-1975) | |
| Lerwick North County Councillors | ||
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| Councillors | John Anderson (1890-1901) • William Tulloch (1901-1919) • William Greig (1919-1920) • Henry Mouat (1920-1929) | |
| Yell North County Councillors | ||
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| Councillors | Zachary Hamilton (1890-1906) • Thomas Sandison (1906-1907) • John Sandison (1907-1910) • Henry Mouat (1910-1919) • George Jamieson (1919-1922) • Lachlan MacFadyen (1922-1925) • James Mainland (1925-1929) • George Jamieson (1929-1932) • Robert Smith (1932-1948) • John Ratter (1948-1952) • John Stewart (1952-1955) • Amanda Youngman (1955-1961) • Andrew Peterson (1961-1962) • Hugh Sutherland (1962-1967) • Hugh Williamson (1967-1973) • Alexander Cluness (1973-1974) • David Johnson (1974-1975) | |
