Walter Elliot (Scottish politician)
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The Right Honourable Walter Elliot MC CH PC FRS FRSE FRCP |
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| Secretary of State for Scotland | |
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In office 29 October 1936 – 6 May 1938 |
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| Monarch |
Edward VIII George VI |
| Prime Minister |
Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain |
| Preceded by | Sir Godfrey Collins |
| Succeeded by | John Colville |
| Minister of Agriculture | |
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In office 28 September 1932 – 29 October 1936 |
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| Prime Minister |
Ramsay Macdonald Stanley Baldwin |
| Preceded by | Sir John Gilmour |
| Succeeded by | William Morrison |
| Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 24 August 1931 – 29 September 1932 |
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| Prime Minister | Ramsay Macdonald |
| Preceded by | Frederick Pethick-Lawrence |
| Succeeded by | Leslie Hore-Belisha |
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| Born | 19 September 1888 Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland |
| Died | 8 January 1958 (aged 69) Bonchester Bridge, Roxburghshire, Scotland |
| Political party |
Conservative Scottish Unionist |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Hamilton Katharine Tennant |
| Alma mater | University of Glasgow |
Dr Walter Elliot Elliot LLD MC and bar CH PC FRS FRSE FRCP (19 September 1888 – 8 January 1958) was a prominent Scottish Unionist Party politician in the interwar years. His most important role was as Secretary of State for Scotland
He was born in Lanark the eldest son of William Elliot, a livestock auctioneer, and his wife, Ellen Elizabeth Shiels. His mother died during the birth of his youngest sibling. The children were thereafter raised by the mother's relatives in Glasgow. They appear to have had a company, Shiels, Elliot and Nelson, who made farming equipment including the Shiels patent milking machine.
Elliot was raised in Glasgow and educated at both Lanark High School and the Glasgow Academy and from 1905 at the University of Glasgow, where he studied science and medicine, graduating MB ChB in 1913. He was President of the Student Union 1911-12. One of his friends from the Academy, through university and beyond, was the playwright Osborne Henry Mavor.
In 1913-14 he was briefly House Surgeon at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow.
At the onset of the First World War he enlisted as a medical officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps attached to the Scots Greys. He won a Military Cross for his actions at Wancourt during the Battle of Arras in April 1917. He won a second Military Cross in Cambrai in November 1917 adding a bar to the original medal. Walter received a leg wound in the final month of the war, but returned home safely. His younger brother Dan Elliot was killed at Gallipoli.
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