Andrew Young (British politician)

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Andrew Young, JP (1858–17 Feb 1943) was a teacher, magistrate, and an MP.

Life[]

In early life he was a shoemaker, map mounter, joiner, and a compositor, and at length became a teacher. He was a teacher at North Canongate School, Edinburgh (5 New Street, and at the time also Cranston Street) (from Dec 1881) situated in the Canongate slum district, and then its headmaster for 27 years (1895? – 1922); at his death he left £100 in 1944 as a charitable trust which is Annually Distributed to Schools.^[1] The school was said to be not merely a school but one of Scotland's greatest social laboratories.

He was Socialist MP for the Partick Division of Glasgow (1923-1924). He was one of the pioneers of the Labour movement in Edinburgh, and to him was due the credit of introducing to the city most of the great leaders of that party,

He was on the Town Council of Edinburgh (1926) and served on various committees, notably on those dealing with housing and public health. He was elected a Bailie, and after serving a term retired in 1933. He was Elected Chair of the Edinburgh Association of the Educational Institute of Scotland (in 1923). He was Curator of Patronage of the University of Edinburgh

He was Governor of the Heriot Trust, member of the Edinburgh Educational Endowments Trust and member of the Scottish Central Aftercare Council and Earl Haig Unity Relief Fund.

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