Graeme Whitelaw

{{Short description|British Conservative Party politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = | office = Member of Parliament<br />for North West Lanarkshire | birth_date = 1863 | birth_name = Graeme Alexander Lockhart Whitelaw | party = Conservative | predecessor = Robert Cunninghame-Graham | successor = John Goundry Holburn | term_start = 4 July 1892 | term_end = 13 July 1895 | death_date = 23 July 1928 }}

'''Graeme Alexander Lockhart Whitelaw''' (1863 – 23 July 1928) was a British Conservative Party politician from Scotland who represented North West Lanarkshire in the House of Commons from 1892 to 1895.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-graeme-whitelaw/index.html|title=Mr Graeme Whitelaw (Hansard)|website=api.parliament.uk|access-date=2020-01-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=1870-03-05|title=Debrett"s Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1870|journal=Notes and Queries|volume=s4-V|issue=114|pages=267|doi=10.1093/nq/s4-v.114.267d|issn=1471-6941|hdl=2027/nyp.33433081805834|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1885?1918|others=Craig, F. W. S.|isbn=978-1-349-02298-4|location=London|oclc=1004382729|date = 1974-06-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Whitaker's almanack.|last=Whitaker, Joseph.|date=1893|publisher=Whitaker|oclc=59599762}}</ref>

He was the second son of Alexander Whitelaw and an elder brother of William Whitelaw, grandfather of William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw. Like his brother, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.<ref>{{Who's Who | title = WHITELAW, Graeme Alexander Lockhart | id = U204607 | type = was | volume = 2024 | edition = online}}</ref>

== Electoral history == {{Election box begin|title=General election 1892: North West Lanarkshire <ref>Whitaker's Almanack, 1893</ref><ref name="craig1885">{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|title=British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885–1918|date=1974|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=9781349022984}}</ref>}} {{Election box candidate with party link|party=Conservative Party (UK)|candidate=Graeme Alexander Whitelaw|votes=4,770|percentage=50.4|change=+2.5|}} {{Election box candidate with party link|party=Liberal Party (UK)|candidate=James C.R. Reade|votes=4,689|percentage=49.6|change=−2.5|}} {{Election box majority||votes=81|percentage=0.8|change=''N/A''}} {{Election box turnout||votes=9,459|percentage=82.9|change=+0.5}} {{Election box registered electors||reg. electors=11,408}} {{Election box gain with party link||winner=Conservative Party (UK)|loser=Liberal-Labour (UK)|swing=+2.5}} {{Election box end}}{{Election box begin|title=General election 1895: North West Lanarkshire <ref name="ReferenceB">Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1901</ref><ref name="craig1885"/>}} {{Election box candidate with party link|party=Liberal Party (UK)|candidate=John Goundry Holburn|votes=5,244|percentage=50.5|change=+0.9|}} {{Election box candidate with party link|party=Conservative Party (UK)|candidate=Graeme Alexander Whitelaw|votes=5,147|percentage=49.5|change=−0.9|}} {{Election box majority||votes=97|percentage=1.0|change=''N/A''}} {{Election box turnout||votes=10,391|percentage=84.0|change=+1.1}} {{Election box registered electors||reg. electors=12,371}} {{Election box gain with party link||winner=Liberal Party (UK)|loser=Conservative Party (UK)|swing=+0.9}} {{Election box end}}{{Election box begin|title=By-election 21 Feb 1899: North West Lanarkshire}} {{Election box candidate with party link|party=Liberal Party (UK)|candidate=Charles Mackinnon Douglas|votes=5,723|percentage=51.6|change=+1.1|}} {{Election box candidate with party link|party=Conservative Party (UK)|candidate=Graeme Alexander Whitelaw|votes=5,364|percentage=48.4|change=−1.1|}} {{Election box majority||votes=359|percentage=3.2|change=+2.2}} {{Election box turnout||votes=11,087|percentage=83.1|change=−0.9}} {{Election box registered electors||reg. electors=13,337}} {{Election box hold with party link||winner=Liberal Party (UK)|swing=+1.1}} {{Election box end}}

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== External links == * [https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-graeme-whitelaw/index.html Hansard]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitelaw, Graeme}} Category:1863 births Category:1928 deaths Category:UK MPs 1892–1895 Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Category:Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912) Category:People from Lanarkshire