# MacCallum Scott

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**Alexander MacCallum Scott** (1874–1928) was Liberal MP for [Glasgow Bridgeton](/source/Glasgow_Bridgeton_(UK_Parliament_constituency)).[1]

He was president of [Glasgow University Union](/source/Glasgow_University_Union),[2][3] worked briefly served as private secretary to [Winston Churchill](/source/Winston_Churchill),[4] and was the first biographer of Churchill (works published 1905 and 1916).

He won Glasgow Bridgeton in December 1910, and held it as a supporter of [Lloyd George](/source/Lloyd_George)'s coalition in 1918, but lost it in 1922. During the 1924 General Election, he sent a message of support to all Scottish Labour candidates not opposed by Liberals. He criticised the Liberal Leader, [H. H. Asquith](/source/H._H._Asquith), for entering into "a compact with the Tories to facilitate a Tory Majority".[5] He resigned from the Liberal Party in late 1924. He joined the [Labour Party](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) in 1927,[6] which adopted him as a [prospective parliamentary candidate](/source/Prospective_parliamentary_candidate).[7]

He died in the crash of an aeroplane flying between [Victoria, British Columbia](/source/Victoria,_British_Columbia), and [Seattle](/source/Seattle).

His son, John Hutchison MacCallum Scott was active in the Liberal Party and contested the 1945 General Election at [Leeds North](/source/Leeds_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) and later became involved with [Liberal International](/source/Liberal_International).

## Works

- *Winston Spencer Churchill* (Newnes, 1905)
- *The Truth About Tibet* (Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1905)
- *National Education. The Secular Solution, the Only Way* (Morning Leader, 1906)
- *Through Finland to St. Petersburg* (Grant Richards, 1908)
- *Equal Pay for Equal Work. A Woman Suffrage Fallacy* (National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, 1912)
- *The Physical Force Argument against Woman Suffrage* (National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, 1912)
- *Winston Churchill in Peace and War* (Newnes, 1916)
- *Bits of Chelsea* (Macrea Gallery, 1921) illus. by [Thomas Austen Brown](/source/Thomas_Austen_Brown)
- *Barbary: The Romance of the Nearest East* (Thornton Butterworth, 1921)
- *Clydesdale* (Thornton Butterworth, 1924)
- *Beyond the Baltic* (Thornton Butterworth, 1925)
- *Suomi: The Land of the Finns* (Thornton Butterworth, 1926)
- *From Liberalism to Labour* (Deveron Press, 1927)

## References

1. ["Scott, Alexander MacCallum (1874–1928), politician and author"](http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/72181). Retrieved 16 September 2013.

1. ["Scott, Alexander MacCallum (1874–1928), politician and author"](http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/72181). Retrieved 16 September 2013.

1. ["MacCallum Scott Papers"](https://www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/collectionsa-z/maccallumscottpapers/). Retrieved 16 September 2013.

1. *The Downfall of the Liberal Party* by Trevor Wilson

1. Glasgow Herald 24-10-1924

1. The Downfall of the Liberal Party by Trevor Wilson

1. "Obituary: A. MacCallum Scott". *Annual Report of the Independent Labour Party*. 1929.

## External links

- [MacCallum Scott Papers](https://web.archive.org/web/20040506220009/http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/collection/maccallum.html)

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