James Wellwood Johnston

James Wellwood Johnston (5 April 1900 – 18 September 1958) was a British lawyer and politician.^[1]^[2]

The elder son of Christopher Johnston, Lord Sands, he was educated at Rugby School and New College, Oxford. He was called to the Scottish bar in 1924.

Professional career

He was a Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire.

This was normally a Labour seat,which he did fairly well to win from the sitting MP, Lauchlin MacNeill Weir, in the National Government landslide of 1931. However Weir narrowly won it back in 1935.

He was appointed as sheriff substitute of Lanarkshire at Lanark in 1940.^[1]

References

1 2 "Mr. J. W. Johnston". The Times. 20 September 1958. p. 8.
↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 4)

https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-239218

External links

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Wellwood Johnston

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Preceded by

MacNeill Weir

Member of Parliament for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire
1931 – 1935

Succeeded by

MacNeill Weir

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