Allan Ross Welsh
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The Honourable Sir Allan Ross Welsh CMG |
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Sir Allan Ross Welsh, 1937
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| Speaker of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly | |
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In office 1935–1952 |
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| Prime Minister | Godfrey Huggins |
| Governor |
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| Preceded by | Lionel Cripps |
| Member of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly | |
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In office 1927–1939 Serving with
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| Monarch | George V |
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| Governor |
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| Preceded by | Charles Patrick John Coghlan |
| Succeeded by | John Banks Brady |
| Constituency | Bulawayo North |
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| Born | 8 July 1875 |
| Died | 1957 (aged 81–82) Bulawayo |
| Spouse(s) | Lady Maude Marianne Welsh |
| Profession | lawyer, politician |
Sir Allan Ross Welsh CMG (8 July 1875 – 1957) was a Rhodesian lawyer and politician. He was Speaker of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly from 1935–1952.
Welsh was born in Bedford, Eastern Cape to Alexander Robert Welsh, a Presbyterian clergyman from Scotland, and Bertha Solomon, the first woman barrister in South Africa and the first woman member of the South African Parliament. He was educated at Dale College in King William's Town. He passed his final law exams in 1896 and was admitted to the Cape Supreme Court as an attorney and notary.
In 1901, Welsh married Maude Marianne Smit, daughter of N.H. Smit JP of Seymour, Cape Province, and had three daughters.
In 1897, Welsh went to work as a clerk in the firm of Solomon and Thomson, founded by his uncle Sir Edward Philip Solomon, in Johannesburg. Two years later he joined the firm of Frames and Grimmer in Bulawayo as managing clerk.Charles Coghlan arrived in Bulawayo in 1900 and the firm became Frames and Coghlan. However, in 1902 Frames left for Johannesburg and dissolved the partnership with Coghlan. Welsh became a partner of the firm on 1 January 1903 and they practised as Coghlan and Welsh.
In 1907 the firm opened an office in Salisbury with Bernard Tancred as partner and the firm changed name to Coghlan, Welsh and Tancred. When Tancred died in 1911, Coghlan invited Ernest Lucas Guest to join as partner and the firm changed to Coghlan, Welsh and Guest.
Welsh was elected in 1927 to the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly as the member for Bulawayo North, replacing Sir Charles Coghlan, who had died in office, and was re-elected several times until 1935. He succeeded Lionel Cripps as Speaker of the Assembly in 1935 and served until 1952. Cripps was not a member of the House and Welsh did not contest any further elections after 1935.
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