Edwin Scrymgeour (28 July1866-1947), born in Dundee, also known as Neddy, was a ScottishMP for Dundee. He is the only person ever elected to the House of Commons on a prohibitionist ticket.
In the 1922 election, Scrymgeour and ED Morel, Labour, jointly ousted Winston Churchill, who had represented the city as a Liberal (at that point Coalition Liberal) since 1908. Dundee, at that time, was a single constituency with two elected MPs. Scrymgeour remained an MP for Dundee until the 1931 general election when he lost his seat.
EdwinScrymgeour, usually known as Neddy Scrymgeour (July 28, 1866 – February 1, 1947), was a Scottish Member of Parliament for Dundee.
Because of his popularity, general left-wing sympathies and history with the labour movement, from 1922 the Labour Party came to an arrangement whereby they nominated only one candidate for the two-member Dundee constituency and ran what was in effect a joint campaign.
Scrymgeour remained an MP for Dundee until the 1931 general election when he lost his seat.
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